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Definition of Helpful
1. Adjective. Providing assistance or serving a useful function.
Similar to: Accommodating, Adjuvant, Assistive, Face-saving, Facilitative, Facilitatory, Implemental, Instrumental, Subservient, Laborsaving, Laboursaving, Ministrant, Reformative, Reformatory, Right-hand, Stabilising, Stabilizing, Steadying
Derivative terms: Helpfulness
Antonyms: Unhelpful
Definition of Helpful
1. a. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Definition of Helpful
1. Adjective. Furnishing help; giving aid; useful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Helpful
1. being of service or assistance [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Helpful
Literary usage of Helpful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Not in harmony with the general principle of employer's assumption of industrial
risks, yet often helpful toward avoiding friction and dispute, 343 — Sec. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"... increased elaboration means diminished freedom of arrangement on the shelves—but
we hav,e found it helpful in the case of deep shelves in dark corners, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"It was a happy chance which superadded to his other gifts that innate passion
for the stage which is the condition precedent of helpful dramatic criticism. ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1909)
"By Edwin Tausch i Psychological Laboratory Proved helpful, Has the? By LM Billia ...
351 Psychological Origin of Religion. The. ..."
5. Journal of the American Medical Association by American Medical Association (1890)
"Such organizations have been exceedingly helpful in the past, and they will be
in the future. In most instances they are sustained by the personal efforts ..."
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