Definitions for: Helpful

[adj] showing a willingness to cooperate; "a helpful cooperative patient"; "parents hope to raise children who are considerate and helpful to others"
[adj] providing assistance or serving a useful function
[adj] of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the house can save the mother many steps"

Webster (1913) Definition: Help"ful, a.
Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant
and helpful to him! --Shak.
-- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n. --Milton.

Synonyms: accommodating, adjuvant, assistive, attending, cooperative, face-saving, facilitative, facilitatory, implemental, instrumental, kind, laborsaving, laboursaving, ministering, ministrant, reformative, reformatory, right-hand, stabilising, stabilizing, steadying

Antonyms: unhelpful

See Also: accommodative, encouraging, useful, utile

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