helpful

[help-fuhl] / ˈhɛlp fəl /

ADJECTIVE

beneficial, beneficent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accessible advantageous applicable conducive constructive convenient cooperative crucial essential favorable friendly important invaluable practical productive profitable significant suitable supportive sympathetic timely useful valuable

WEAK

accommodating benevolent bettering caring considerate contributive effectual efficacious fortunate good for improving instrumental kind neighborly operative pragmatic serendipitous serviceable symbiotic usable utilitarian

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cold cool disagreeable hindering hurting inappropriate inessential injurious inopportune insignificant minor nonessential trivial unfavorable unfriendly unhelpful unimportant unsociable unsuitable useless worthless

WEAK

disadvantageous harmful hurtful unconstructive

Example Sentences

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I try to be helpful by pushing the cart through the crowded store and loading the bags into the car.

From Literature

On top of that, you can’t beat the open, friendly and helpful people here.

From The Wall Street Journal

The standards would only serve as guidance — not requirements — but even that would be helpful, advocates say.

From Los Angeles Times

Some people also find it helpful to visualise OCD as something separate.

From BBC

If the ongoing scientific debate "derails that effort to try and understand if they're bad for us, that's not helpful", he said.

From Barron's