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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She adds that while some trusts "can be a really helpful tool" in some circumstances there are also "tax complexities".

From BBC

And that actually was really helpful in the playing of it, particularly in that one scene when the Creature comes back and demands a companion.

From Los Angeles Times

Viruses are often associated with illnesses like the flu, but researchers can modify them so they do not cause disease and instead carry helpful material.

From Science Daily

Still, robots are a long way from living up to the hype, say some analysts who are skeptical about whether businesses and consumers will even find them helpful.

From Los Angeles Times

So far, he has found AI tools to be helpful professionally and personally.

From The Wall Street Journal

helpful

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