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un·help·ful
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Princeton's WordNet
unhelpfuladjective
providing no assistance
Antonyms:
steadying, helpful, reformative, accommodating, subservient, instrumental, assistive, reformatory, stabilising, laboursaving, ministrant, face-saving, right-hand, stabilizing, facilitative, implemental, adjuvant, laborsaving, facilitatory
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#9462 | unnecessary | |
#10226 | useless | |
#17502 | sterile | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#24369 | unhelpful | |
#26975 | futile |
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The unnecessary, unhelpful profiling of individuals based on ethnicity is utterly and completely unacceptable and it needs to stop.
None of us is ever going to get in a Twitter war with anyone else, if we have a concern with someone, we're going to go right up and talk to Chrissy Houlahan about it and we're not going to add unhelpful rhetoric to an already bad tone coming out of Washington.
We find that a very unconstructive move... It's unhelpful to mutual understanding between China and United States. We hope United States will change such a negative mindset.
Irish Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan:
I share the view that at some stage in the future that the unification would be in the best interests of the people but only when there is a majority consent of the people in Northern Ireland, we now have a situation following the referendum, where the UK is leaving the European Union. Any further referendums in Northern Ireland would cause a greater level of division than we have now and is therefore in my view particularly unhelpful.
The statements of the British prime minister yesterday in the House of Commons were very unhelpful to this process, he seems to have made a deliberate decision to set Britain on a collision course with the European Union and with Ireland in relation to the Brexit negotiations.
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