| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable for |
| Synonyms: | accessory, calculated to produce, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, productive of, promotive, tending, useful |
| Antonyms: | adverse, discouraging, hindering, unconducive, unfavorable, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | efficient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | adept, effective |
| Synonyms: | able, accomplished, active, adapted, adequate, apt, businesslike, capable, clever, competent, conducive, decisive, deft, dynamic, economic, economical, effectual, efficacious, energetic, equal to, experienced, expert, familiar with, fitted, good at, good for, handy, masterly, organized, potent, powerful, practiced, productive, proficient, profitable, qualified, ready, saving, shrewd, skilled, skillful, systematic, talented, tough, useful, valuable, virtuous, well-organized |
| Antonyms: | helpless, impotent, incompetent, ineffective, inefficient, powerless, unable, weak |
| Main Entry: | fruitful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive |
| Synonyms: | abounding, abundant, advantageous, beneficial, blooming, blossoming, breeding, childing, conducive, copious, effective, fecund, fertile, flourishing, flush, fructiferous, gainful, plenteous, plentiful, profitable, profuse, proliferant, prolific, propagating, reproducing, rewarding, rich, spawning, successful, useful, well-spent, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | barren, impotent, sterile, unfruitful, unproductive |
| Main Entry: | healthful/healthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good for one's wellness |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, aiding, aseptic, beneficial, benign, body-building, bracing, cathartic, clean, compensatory, conducive, corrective, desirable, disease-free, energy-giving, fresh, harmless, healing, health-giving, helpful, hygienic, innocuous, invigorating, mitigative, nourishing, nutritious, nutritive, profitable, pure, restorative, salubrious, salutary, sanatory, sanitary, stimulating, sustaining, tonic, unadulterated, unpolluted, untainted, useful, wholesome |
| Antonyms: | bad, corrupt, diseased, noxious, rotten, sickening, unhealthful, unhealthy |
| Main Entry: | helpful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, beneficent |
| Synonyms: | accessible, accommodating, advantageous, applicable, benevolent, bettering, caring, conducive, considerate, constructive, contributive, convenient, cooperative, crucial, effectual, efficacious, essential, favorable, fortunate, friendly, good for, important, improving, instrumental, invaluable, kind, neighborly, operative, practical, pragmatic, productive, profitable, serendipitous, serviceable, significant, suitable, supportive, symbiotic, sympathetic, timely, usable, useful, utilitarian, valuable |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful, injurious, unconstructive, unhelpful, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | hopeful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | promising, auspicious |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, arousing, beneficial, bright, cheerful, cheering, conducive, convenient, elating, encouraging, enlivening, exciting, expeditious, fair, favorable, fine, fit, flattering, fortifying, fortunate, golden, good, gracious, halcyon, heartening, helpful, inspiring, inspiriting, likely, lucky, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, probable, promiseful, propitious, providential, reasonable, reassuring, roseate, rosy, rousing, stirring, suitable, sunny, timely, uplifting, well-timed |
| Notes: | hopeful means having or inspiring hope; optimistic means expecting the best |
| Antonyms: | desperate, hopeless, inauspicious, pointless, unpromising, wretched |
| Main Entry: | instrumental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential, assisting |
| Synonyms: | active, auxiliary, conducive, contributory, helpful, helping, involved, of help, of service, partly responsible, serviceable, subsidiary, useful |
| Antonyms: | unhelpful, useless |
| Main Entry: | profitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous; money-making |
| Synonyms: | assisting, beneficial, commercial, conducive, contributive, cost-effective, effective, effectual, favorable, fruitful, gainful, going, good, in the black, instrumental, lucrative, paid off, paying, paying well, practical, pragmatic, productive, remunerative, rewarding, self-sustaining, serviceable, successful, sustaining, sweet*, useful, valuable, well-paying, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, unprofitable |
| Main Entry: | subservient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secondary, useful |
| Synonyms: | accessory, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary, bush-league, collateral, conducive, contributory, flunky, helpful, inferior, instrumental, minor, serviceable, subordinate, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary |
| Antonyms: | unhelpful, unnecessary, useless |