helpful

helpful

adjective

Definition of HELPFUL

1

providing service or assistance <a Web site that I've always found to be helpful for finding information on common medical problems>

Synonyms conducive, facilitative, useful

Related Words advantageous, beneficial, efficacious, favorable, productive, profitable, salutary; accommodating, obliging

Near Antonyms ineffective, ineffectual; adverse, disadvantageous, inconvenient, profitless, unfavorable

Antonyms unhelpful, useless

2

promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being <it would be helpful to have more than one thesaurus in the classroom>

Synonyms advantageous, benefic, beneficent, benignant, favorable, friendly, good, helpful, kindly, profitable, salutary

Related Words gratifying, rewarding, satisfying; auspicious, promising, propitious; advisable, desirable, healthful, healthy, salubrious, salutiferous, wholesome; gainful, lucrative, remunerative; ameliorative, amelioratory, bettering, constructive, supportive

Near Antonyms damaging, deleterious, harmful, injurious, insalubrious

Antonyms bad, disadvantageous, unfavorable, unfriendly, unhelpful, unprofitable