'Helpful' definitions:
Definition of 'helpful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Providing assistance or serving a useful function [ant: unhelpful]
Definition of 'Helpful'
From: GCIDE
- Helpful \Help"ful\, a. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary. [1913 Webster]
- Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him! --Shak. -- {Help"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Help"ful*ness}, n. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'helpful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accommodating,
- accommodative,
- advantageous,
- agential,
- agentival,
- agentive,
- agreeable,
- aidful,
- aiding,
- appropriate,
- assisting,
- attentive,
- auspicious,
- banausic,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- bon,
- bonny,
- brave,
- braw,
- bueno,
- capital,
- caring,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- commodious,
- complaisant,
- conducive,
- considerate,
- constructive,
- contributory,
- cooperative,
- delicate,
- effective,
- elegant,
- employable,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- facilitating,
- fair,
- famous,
- favorable,
- favoring,
- fine,
- fitting,
- forwarding,
- friendly,
- functional,
- furthersome,
- good,
- good for,
- goodly,
- grand,
- handy,
- healthy,
- heedful,
- indulgent,
- instrumental,
- intermediary,
- kind,
- laudable,
- lenient,
- mediating,
- mediatorial,
- mindful,
- mindful of others,
- ministerial,
- ministering,
- nice,
- noble,
- obliging,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- pleasant,
- positive,
- practical,
- pragmatic,
- pragmatical,
- productive,
- profitable,
- promoting,
- proper,
- propitious,
- reassuring,
- regal,
- regardful,
- remedial,
- royal,
- salutary,
- serviceable,
- skillful,
- solicitous,
- sound,
- splendid,
- subservient,
- supportive,
- sympathetic,
- tactful,
- therapeutic,
- thoughtful,
- tolerant,
- toward,
- usable,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- valid,
- valuable,
- very good,
- virtuous