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helpful

/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/adjective2 syllables

Helpful means: providing assistance or serving a useful function.

Synonyms for helpful26

adjective, as in providing assistance or serving a useful function

accommodating, adjuvant, assistive, face-saving, facilitative, facilitatory, implemental, instrumental, subservient, laborsaving, laboursaving, ministrant, attending, reformative
and 10 more, reformatory, right-hand, stabilizing, stabilising, steadying, accommodative, cooperative, encouraging, useful, utile

also used for helpful

friendly, obliging

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Opposites of helpful

unhelpful

What does helpful mean?1

adjective

1

providing assistance or serving a useful function

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with helpful?1

three syllables

unhelpful
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Helpful in a sentence

  • My daughter helps me clean up the kitchen, she's very helpful.issadouba
  • He may be clever, but he is not very helpful.CM
  • You got some nerve, being this helpful while we're all pissed at you!buster_blu
  • If you found this video helpful, please give it a like.Amastan
  • You love being flattered, but you love being helpful even more.DJ_Saidez
  • Unfortunately, being a woman isn't very helpful when it gets dark in the area.Amastan
  • At this time, some advice would be greatly helpful.belgavox
  • Your comments were always very helpful to me.orcrist

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