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Helpful

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Providing assistance; useful.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Furnishing help; serviceable; useful; beneficial.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. providing assistance or serving a useful function

Word Usage

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Equivalent

laboursaving face-saving subservient accommodating steadying reformatory stabilizing adjuvant facilitative instrumental

Antonym

hindering ruinous

Cross Reference

coöperative helpfully helpfulness

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

assistant useful salutary aiding contributory aidful furthersome beneficial comfortable favorable

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

unhelpful

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

useful friendly beneficial reasonable relevant attentive loyal willing