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helpful
[ help-fuhl ]
adjective
- giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service:
Your comments were very helpful.
Synonyms: advantageous, beneficial, convenient, useful
Antonyms: inconvenient, useless
helpful
/ ˈhɛlpfʊl /
adjective
- serving a useful function; giving help
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Derived Forms
- ˈhelpfulness, noun
- ˈhelpfully, adverb
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Other Words From
- helpful·ly adverb
- helpful·ness noun
- over·helpful adjective
- over·helpful·ly adverb
- over·helpful·ness noun
- quasi-helpful adjective
- quasi-helpful·ly adverb
- un·helpful adjective
- un·helpful·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
What criticisms of last season did you find helpful, and not so helpful?
The 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.
Many readers will no doubt be surprised just how friendly Mailer was, how helpful he was to friends and strangers alike.
A 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.
In spite of this acknowledged defect, many of the best players in this country regard it as a legitimate and helpful device.
He 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.
But she told them all the helpful things she could about setting up the radio paraphernalia and rigging the wires.
Now good-natured Alfaretta was nothing if not helpful, and quite human enough to enjoy smashing something.
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