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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective helpful has 1 sense

• helpful(a = adj.all) Array - providing assistance or serving a useful function; Array
Derived form noun helpfulness₁
Antonym: unhelpful

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THESAURUS

helpful

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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helpful

Aid

N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.

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