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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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On the whole, though, competitors say it’s more helpful than not.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2026

If OpenAI’s ad formats prove to be more helpful than intrusive, the company could eventually “siphon off valuable commercial queries that traditionally go to Google,” Mahaney warned.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 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

Selkie and Fred jumped in to help fish out the coconuts, which would have been more helpful if they hadn’t kept playing coconut soccer instead.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr