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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Led by evolutionary biologist Jianzhi Zhang, the research suggests that helpful mutations may be far more common than long standing theory predicts.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

And if someone is buying into the Baron Partners fund in the hope of getting SpaceX at a pre-IPO price, it would be helpful to know what price they are paying.

From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026

The University of Kansas hospital system was not always this helpful.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

A specialist in the political and economic dynamics of the Gulf, Mate Szalai, says this is helpful up to a point for foreign politicians and diplomats.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

I am working harder than ever to keep myself helpful to the Pickled Onion.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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