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

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This gap has left researchers wondering what kinds of chemical information these helpful bacteria are actually detecting in their environment.

From Science Daily

“Jeffrey was quite helpful and he put in a lot of time in. Without him it would have been harder. I will send him a thank you.”

From The Wall Street Journal

This means they help the immune system distinguish between harmful threats and harmless targets, preventing unnecessary attacks on the body's own cells, helpful microbes, and everyday foods.

From Science Daily

To grasp their potential implications, it is helpful to understand something about their architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I believe him. In fact, I believe he could be the most helpful person in Sassafras Springs. The loom told me so.”

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