Synonyms of helping

helping 1 of 2

adjective

1

as in aiding

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

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• nonautomatic
• nonautomated

• nonautomatic
• nonautomated

2

as in assisting

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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5

as in improving

to make better

some minor revisions would help this essay immensely

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

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

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

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Phrases Containing helping

• helping hand

• helping hand