helpful
giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
Origin of helpful
1Other words for helpful
Opposites for helpful
Other words from helpful
- help·ful·ly, adverb
- help·ful·ness, noun
- o·ver·help·ful, adjective
- o·ver·help·ful·ly, adverb
- o·ver·help·ful·ness, noun
- quasi-helpful, adjective
- qua·si-help·ful·ly, adverb
- un·help·ful, adjective
- un·help·ful·ly, adverb
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How to use helpful in a sentence
Yet, if you want to maximize your reach, it’s helpful to use in-app advertising.
What you must know about TikTok for business | Connie Benton | September 17, 2020 | Search Engine WatchOther times, Narayan points out, storm surges can be surprisingly helpful, depositing sediment that helps wetlands extend out into the ocean.
Soggy coastal soils? Here’s why ecologists love them | Alison Pearce Stevens | September 17, 2020 | Science News For StudentsStrengthening your core and back muscles, then, can be incredibly helpful in treating and preventing back pain.
The best thing for back pain is actually more movement | Sara Chodosh | September 16, 2020 | Popular-ScienceOver my career and life, I’ve read and listened to many different helpful books and podcasts, I couldn’t name just one.
Book recommendations from Fortune’s 40 under 40 in media and entertainment | Rachel King | September 11, 2020 | FortuneBusinesses raced to introduce benefits that their employees could take advantage of—and that would be most helpful— during the global crisis.
The best back-to-school benefits companies are offering their employees | ehinchliffe | September 10, 2020 | Fortune
What criticisms of last season did you find helpful, and not so helpful?
‘Archer’ Creator Adam Reed Spills Season 6 Secrets, From Surreal Plotlines to Life Post-ISIS | Marlow Stern | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Stormfront crowd offers its own helpful political advice, not only for Scalise but also for the entire GOP.
Sabrine is a trained lawyer, likely a helpful quality when your task is to push politicians.
A Sunni-Shia Love Story Imperiled by al Qaeda | Ruth Michaelson | December 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMany readers will no doubt be surprised just how friendly Mailer was, how helpful he was to friends and strangers alike.
Mailer’s Letters Pack a Punch and a Surprising Degree of Sweetness | Ronald K. Fried | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA helpful pictorial index provides photographs of the actual objects.
Madame Ratignolle, when they had regained her cottage, went in to take the hour's rest which she considered helpful.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIn spite of this acknowledged defect, many of the best players in this country regard it as a legitimate and helpful device.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerHe was a good Eastern scholar, but the dull rays of a small oil lamp were not helpful in a task always difficult to English eyes.
The Red Year | Louis TracyBut she told them all the helpful things she could about setting up the radio paraphernalia and rigging the wires.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseNow good-natured Alfaretta was nothing if not helpful, and quite human enough to enjoy smashing something.
Dorothy at Skyrie | Evelyn Raymond
British Dictionary definitions for helpful
/ (ˈhɛlpfʊl) /
serving a useful function; giving help
Derived forms of helpful
- helpfully, adverb
- helpfulness, noun
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