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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“These pictures are very helpful. They’re giving me some ideas already.”

From Literature

“I don’t know,” I say, miserable that I’ve remembered something else, but not anything helpful.

From Literature

St Louis told him that taking a DJing course through the trust had been "more than helpful".

From BBC

As the host, your job is not to cook everything — but it is helpful to provide a few reliable anchors that make the meal feel abundant no matter what guests arrive with.

From Salon

“I have the stock number if it’s helpful.”

From The Wall Street Journal

helpful

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