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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1. Aleksandr Kogan:

   This has been a very painful experience, because, when I entered into all of this, Facebook was a close ally, i was thinking this would be helpful to my academic career and my relationship with Facebook. It has very clearly done the complete opposite.

2. Josh Holmes:

   Here are these people who are just hypercritical of anything that doesn't come out of Anthony Fauci's mouth, at the same time, they're calling drugs horse tranquilizers or horse dewormers and suggesting that they can't be any helpful under any circumstance and basically practicing medicine without a license as they're typing on the computer.

3. Troy Littleton:

   These sort of ideas are built into the system, that it's very difficult to have a child and be a grad student, often create these sort of invisible barriers that we never even see, but they keep many women from entering STEM to begin with, having a policy where there's clear support laid out, that is not something you have to go dig up and find and fight for, that every student has access to, will be very helpful.

4. Leon Panetta:

   I can understand his emotional feel about Putin not staying in office. I think a lot of people would probably agree with that. But at this point in the game, you really have to keep your messages very simple and very direct, and I think this created some confusion that wasn’t helpful.

5. Natalie Buxton:

   You can read reviews online to help you find a reputable organization, nonprofit animal organizations will also be rated by Charity Navigator or Guidestar, so that can be helpful for finding a trustworthy organization.