helpful
AdjectiveUS[help-fuhl]/ˈhɛlpfəl/2 syllables
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Adjective (1)
- providing assistance or serving a useful functionOpposite unhelpfulSimilar laborsaving, face-saving, facilitatory, stabilizing, assistive, steadying, adjuvant, reformative +5 moreSee also accommodating, cooperative, encouraging, useful
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Help′ful adjective
Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him!— William Shakespeare
— Help′wb-a1′>′ful·ly, adverb — Help′wb-a1′>′ful·ness, noun John Milton
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54