Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words (original) (raw)
helpful
adjective
- giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service:
Your comments were very helpful.
Synonyms: advantageous, beneficial, convenient, useful
Antonyms: inconvenient, useless
/ ˈhɛlpfʊl /
adjective
- serving a useful function; giving help
Discover More
Derived Forms
- ˈhelpfulness, noun
- ˈhelpfully, adverb
Discover More
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
Discover More
Word History and Origins
Discover More
Example Sentences
That’s so helpful in solving difficult and important problems — by further dividing the electorate at public expense, while the rich keep getting richer.
Carl, a kind raccoon who loves to collect things, lives in a fictional world called Fuzzytown with his friends, including twin rabbits, a helpful beaver, a reserved fox and an energetic squirrel.
To answer that, it’s helpful to break down the total spending figure.
I was nervous about that initially, but it ended up being monumentally helpful because you get to distinguish the factors that come together in the end a little bit more by depicting them chronologically.
"I managed to stumble my way through it, and I learned from really good people alongside me who were incredibly helpful in the early days."