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more helpful

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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Instead, a more helpful framework is to interpret the curve as a signal to help traders and end users of oil manage their inventories.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

The review found that light to moderate intensity activity may be more helpful than vigorous workouts.

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

A more helpful place for policy focus is the broken educational pipeline that led to the college in La Jolla now needing to teach fourth-grade fractions.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

Redick did say for training camp purposes, practice tends to be more helpful in team building than preseason games.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

“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