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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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Bosses are turning to bots and consultants to give younger workers the more helpful, frequent direction they say they crave.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

He can also call up pronunciation guides for players on all 30 major league teams, though he’s found the radio broadcasters for the visiting clubs are often more helpful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2026

It was humbling to see how the AI got my friend to open up in a way that I hadn’t, and I recognized that its questions were much more helpful than my answers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

Friends, Families & Travellers – a charity supporting the Gypsy, Romany and traveller communities – said: "Instead of telling people where they can't go, it'd be more helpful to tell people where they can go."

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

“Mila, sorry I wasn’t more helpful when you came to see me,” he said in a quiet, serious voice.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee