Meaning of HELPFUL
| Pronunciation: | | 'helpful
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- [adj] showing a willingness to cooperate; "a helpful cooperative patient"; "parents hope to raise children who are considerate and helpful to others"
- [adj] providing assistance or serving a useful function
- [adj] of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the house can save the mother many steps"
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| | Synonyms: | | accommodating, adjuvant, assistive, attending, cooperative, face-saving, facilitative, facilitatory, implemental, instrumental, kind, laborsaving, laboursaving, ministering, ministrant, reformative, reformatory, right-hand, stabilising, stabilizing, steadying |
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| | Antonyms: | | unhelpful | | |
| | See Also: | | accommodative, encouraging, useful, utile | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Help"ful\, a.
Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant
and helpful to him! --Shak.
-- {Help"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Help"ful*ness}, n. --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | accommodating, accommodative, advantageous, agential, agentival, agentive, agreeable, aidful, aiding, appropriate, assisting, attentive, auspicious, banausic, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, braw, bueno, capital, caring, cogent, commendable, commodious, complaisant, conducive, considerate, constructive, contributory, cooperative, delicate, effective, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient, facilitating, fair, famous, favorable, favoring, fine, fitting, forwarding, friendly, functional, furthersome, good, good for, goodly, grand, handy, healthy, heedful, indulgent, instrumental, intermediary, kind, laudable, lenient, mediating, mediatorial, mindful, mindful of others, ministerial, ministering, nice, noble, obliging, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, pleasant, positive, practical, pragmatic, pragmatical, productive, profitable, promoting, proper, propitious, reassuring, regal, regardful, remedial, royal, salutary, serviceable, skillful, solicitous, sound, splendid, subservient, supportive, sympathetic, tactful, therapeutic, thoughtful, tolerant, toward, usable, useful, utilitarian, valid, valuable, very good, virtuous |
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