| Meaning | Providing assistance or serving a useful function. |
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| Narrower | accommodating | obliging |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | provechoso, servicial, útil |
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| Catalan | útil |
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| Nouns | helpfulness | the property of providing useful assistance |
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| Adverbs | helpfully | in a helpful manner |
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