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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“Drone delivery is especially helpful when customers need just one to a handful of items fast.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Finding these helpful substances is difficult because foods are chemically complex.

From Science Daily

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

From Science Daily

She stressed that the findings come from medical trials rather than real life and more studies of the longer-term effects of new slimming jabs would be helpful.

From BBC

Scientists say some of his warnings, such as those on ultraprocessed food, are helpful.

From The Wall Street Journal

helpful

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