Synonyms for helpful
ˈhɛlp fəlhelp·ful

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1. helpful

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, useful, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.8 / 4 votes

1. helpfuladjective

   providing assistance or serving a useful function

   Antonyms:
   unconstructive, unaccommodating, unhelpful

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1. all purpose

   i mean an object or a place which gives lots of facilities or ways.

   ther is a branch mraket near by my house,which is an all purpose market& i am always very happy about it.

   Submitted by faryville on October 25, 2020  

2. encouragingadjective

   they can encourage you which is helpful

   manuel was very helpful during our studies.

   Submitted by dottykay10 on May 17, 2022  

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1. helpfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   useful, beneficial, convenient

2. helpfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   wholesome, salutary

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1. helpfuladjective

   Synonyms:
   assistant, conducive, instrumental, useful, salutary

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1. List of paraphrases for "helpful":

   useful, beneficial, valuable, worthwhile, meaningful, instrumental, handy

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How to use helpful in a sentence?

1. Trey Gowdy:

   The drama does not help anyone, so if you're going to produce it, produce it -- if you're not going to produce it let us know, that's helpful information, too. And then( Oversight Committee Speaker Paul Ryan) has to decide a number of things. But when you push the issue, you're not getting the documents, you're going to court.

2. Patricia Renzi:

   The name Microsoft is helpful in dealing with large insurance companies.

3. Product Keith Coleman:

   These notes are being intentionally kept separate from Twitter for now, while we build Birdwatch and gain confidence that it produces context people find helpful and appropriate, additionally, notes will not have an effect on the way people see Tweets or our system recommendations.

4. North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple:

   It's helpful to see these as one part of the overall safety equation, still, it's important to see that North Dakota crude is not different from other light, sweet crudes around the country.

5. Solis Doyle:

   Look this was bad. I ca n’t sugarcoat it, she was wrong and clearly it’s not helpful to Democrats going into the midterms and certainly not going into 2020.