Synonyms of helping

helping 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in aiding

Related Words

• aiding
• relieving
• computerized
• easing
• motorized
• nonmanual
• time-saving
• mechanical
• automated
• automatic
• robotic
• semiautomatic
• laborsaving
• self-regulating
• self-operating
• self-acting

Dissimilar Words

• nonautomatic
• nonautomated

2

as in assisting

Related Words

• assisting
• supportive
• assistant
• complementary
• contributory
• tributary
• further
• subordinate
• additional
• subsidiary
• added
• adjuvant
• secondary
• another
• excess
• surplus
• superfluous
• makeshift
• nonessential
• backup
• auxiliary
• subservient
• accessory
• peripheral
• dispensable
• substitute
• unessential
• appurtenant
• supplementary
• supplemental
• accessorial

Dissimilar Words

• main
• principal
• chief
• basic
• necessary
• fundamental
• primary
• prime
• essential
• vital
• integral
• required
• imperative
• needed
• requisite
• indispensable
• needful
• all-important

helping

2 of 2

verb

present participle of help

1

as in supporting

to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end

offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assisting
• aiding
• supporting
• reinforcing
• abetting
• saving
• promoting
• facilitating
• encouraging
• backing
• guiding
• bolstering
• propping (up)
• backstopping
• endorsing
• sponsoring
• furthering
• serving
• fostering
• comforting
• rescuing
• bearing a hand
• attending
• benefiting
• launching
• forwarding
• championing
• standing one in good stead
• sustaining
• advancing
• advising
• patronizing
• easing
• mentoring
• boosting
• ministering (to)
• nurturing
• buttressing
• succoring
• profiting
• caring (for)
• counseling
• obliging
• delivering
• bailing out
• emboldening
• favoring
• heartening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hindering
• blocking
• impeding
• hampering
• restraining
• interfering
• inhibiting
• opposing
• obstructing
• failing
• constraining
• thwarting
• holding back
• barring
• handicapping
• strangling
• sabotaging
• frustrating
• disappointing
• balking
• discouraging
• baffling
• deserting
• letting down
• inconveniencing
• retarding
• hurting
• foiling
• harming
• disheartening
• repressing
• damaging
• stifling
• stunting
• injuring
• straitening

2

as in alleviating

to make more bearable or less severe

the new ointment didn't help Josh's sunburn one bit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• alleviating
• relieving
• soothing
• easing
• mitigating
• softening
• improving
• healing
• allaying
• curing
• enhancing
• mollifying
• assuaging
• remedying
• palliating
• moderating
• fixing
• tempering
• correcting
• repairing
• lightening
• rectifying
• reforming
• amending
• refining
• enriching
• bettering
• perfecting
• ameliorating
• abating
• mending
• meliorating
• emending

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hurting
• aggravating
• impairing
• injuring
• harming
• exacerbating
• intensifying
• sharpening
• heightening

3

as in preventing

to keep from happening by taking action in advance

they couldn't help the way things turned out

Synonyms & Similar Words

• preventing
• averting
• avoiding
• precluding
• providing
• forestalling
• obviating
• escaping
• anticipating
• heading off
• saving
• hindering
• deterring
• thwarting
• staving off
• impeding
• hampering
• neutralizing
• evading
• shaking
• nullifying
• retarding
• stopping
• prohibiting
• deflecting
• forbidding
• interfering (with)
• blocking
• negating
• frustrating
• eluding
• counteracting
• stalling
• offsetting
• inhibiting
• checking
• shunning
• baffling
• foiling
• eschewing
• circumventing
• warding (off)
• fending (off)
• counterbalancing
• balking
• halting
• dodging
• making up (for)
• compensating (for)
• checkmating
• arresting
• barring
• ducking
• shirking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• assisting
• aiding
• facilitating
• abetting
• promoting
• encouraging
• smoothing
• easing
• advancing
• furthering
• fostering
• leaving
• cultivating
• allowing
• letting
• permitting
• nurturing
• forwarding
• unclogging

4

as in benefiting

to provide with something useful or desirable

being independently wealthy certainly helped him during his years as a struggling young artist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• benefiting
• profiting
• availing
• assisting
• aiding
• serving
• improving
• advantaging
• working (for)
• succeeding
• bettering
• pleasing
• satisfying
• gratifying
• delighting
• blessing
• contenting
• gladdening

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• hindering
• impeding
• hurting
• damaging
• injuring
• impairing
• harming
• distressing
• upsetting
• afflicting

5

as in improving

to make better

some minor revisions would help this essay immensely

Synonyms & Similar Words

• improving
• enhancing
• refining
• enriching
• bettering
• upgrading
• perfecting
• remedying
• ameliorating
• amending
• remediating
• reinforcing
• meliorating
• correcting
• strengthening
• rectifying
• rehabilitating
• reforming
• intensifying
• revising
• boosting
• refurbishing
• editing
• reworking
• revamping
• fortifying
• fine-tuning
• polishing
• fining
• honing
• rehabbing
• emending
• redrafting
• beefing (up)
• retouching
• touching up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• worsening
• hurting
• harming
• impairing
• damaging
• spoiling
• injuring
• tarnishing
• reducing
• vitiating
• blighting
• diminishing
• disfiguring
• marring
• defacing
• lowering
• lessening
• endamaging
• flawing
• blemishing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of helping

Adjective

And right now, the Eric Dane story isn’t much helping. — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 14 Apr. 2026

Verb

Désir, a married father of two young children, is among several people accused of helping advance the conspiracy that culminated in Moïse’s killing. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 3 Nov. 2026

The competition eventually opened to public voting, with customers and supporters helping Tapestry secure the top spot. — CBS News, 3 Nov. 2026

The Overnight Hand & Foot Hydration Mask is an intensive overnight treatment combining shea butter, glycerin, panthenol and squalane to deeply hydrate, soften and condition dry skin while helping soothe irritation. — ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026

Climate scientist Daniel Swain wrote that many people have been asking whether the extreme rainfall is helping ease the Colorado Basin water crisis. — Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2026

No one has a better track record of helping young women artists articulate their emotional lives and writerly poise on record, and then making that record a smash hit. — Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2026

He is widely credited with liberalizing Israel’s economy and helping transform the country into a global high-tech hub. — Amelie Botbol, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Maria would spend years debating the ideas of early economics with Malthus, his friends, and eventually his successor, helping to influence their thinking and inform their research. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026

The bigger opportunity is helping the whole organization move faster. — Joel Burleson-Davis, Forbes.com, 26 Oct. 2026

Phrases Containing helping

• helping hand