helpful (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *helpful*:
ADJECTIVE	all	helpful	providing assistance or serving a useful function

helpful > pronunciation
Sounds	hheh'lpfahl
Rhymes	abdominal ... zoological: 2115 rhymes with ahl...

English > *helpful*: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaning	Providing assistance or serving a useful function.
Narrower	accommodating	obliging
	adjuvant	enhancing the action of a medical treatment
	assistive	Giving assistance
	face-saving	Maintaining dignity or prestige
	facilitative	Freeing from difficulty or impediment
	facilitatory	inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity
	implemental, instrumental, subservient	Serving or acting as a means or aid
	laborsaving, laboursaving	designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor
	ministrant	Giving practical help to
	reformative, reformatory	tending to reform
	right-hand	Most helpful and reliable / reliable
	stabilizing, stabilising	Causing to become stable
	steadying	Causing to become steady
See also	accommodating, accommodative	helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation
	cooperative	done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit
	encouraging	Giving courage or confidence / confidence or hope
	useful, utile	Of use or service
Opposite	unhelpful	Providing no assistance
Spanish	provechoso, servicial, útil
Catalan	útil
Nouns	helpfulness	the property of providing useful assistance
Adverbs	helpfully	in a helpful manner

HyperDic: helpful