help
verb (used with object)
to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist.
unhelpable
-
a word derived from
help.
Example Sentences
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Most public men and all lawyers have been appealed to by victims of this sense of injustice—the most unhelpable of afflictions in a society like ours.
From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Bernard Shaw
If one half of the money that is spent trying to help unhelpable people was spent in helping the kind of families I refer to in the manner I describe, the results would be surprising.
From London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes
She feared it was going to be something objectionable and unhelpable.
From The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Asenath Carver Coolidge
