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

From Science Daily • Jan. 8, 2026

Consumers might find AI more helpful for researching more expensive products such as electronics or appliances that involve comparing various features.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 7, 2026

The money could be far more helpful when the adult children are buying homes or facing other major expenses than it would be when the children themselves are nearing retirement age.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 19, 2025

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

It would be much more helpful if Byrd gave clues to the mystery of a disappearing dad.

From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers