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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But Brown's statement isn't entirely helpful for the current prime minister.

From BBC

“You offer a commercial product to provide connectivity to people, which is helpful in conflict, but you also want to be careful of how they use it,” Shotwell said at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal

It is helpful to have friends in high places.

From The Wall Street Journal

While helpful, the Head Start support is limited and does not cover the number of hours of care the families need.

From Los Angeles Times

“He’s a friend, he’s a confidant, and he’s like a Swiss Army knife. He’s helpful with the economy. So I’m gonna miss him.”

From Barron's

helpful

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