Help Synonyms and Antonyms
hĕlp
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Synonyms for Help
To give such assistance
(Sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
The process of directing the course of a spacecraft, missile, etc.
(Idiomatic) To provide support or the promise of support.
To make beneficial additions or changes:
Cheer means to comfort, encourage or bring joy.
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do a service
To aid
To be or to provide a benefit to.
do one's part
To aid
take under one's wing
To aid
give a lift
To aid
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To cause to move backward or in a reverse direction:
To try to heal; apply medicine to
(Colloquial) To wait for an event.
To bring or send help to
(Idiomatic) To help out; lend assistance; contribute; to do one's part.
To make better; improve
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To make or become better; improve:
The definition of attendant is a person who performs a service for another.
(Baseball) A relief pitcher.
(intransitive) To turn one's consideration (to); to deal with (a task, problem, concern etc.), to look after. [from 15th c.]
The degree of immediacy of a source of information; degree of reliability:
(Slang) To steal or rob, especially by shoplifting or pickpocketing.
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To cause to be interested or engaged:
go to bat for
To aid
To aid
tend to
To serve at table
The definition of assistance is the act of helping or lending support.
The state of being supported:
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adminicular
Supplying help; auxiliary; corroborative; explanatory.
be of use
To aid
(Idiomatic) To help or assist, especially voluntarily.
do a favor
To aid
To choose to take the same point of view as (someone).
To make better; improve:
A supporter or advocate. [Late 16th century.]
be of some help
To aid
help along
To aid
take in tow
To aid
To reconcile (differences)
To improve, usually applied to technology, generally by complete replacement of one or more components
Affording advantage; favorable or beneficial.
Serving to cure or heal; curative
come to the aid of
To aid
(Idiomatic, intransitive) To wait in expectation of some event; to make ready.
(Idiomatic) To not be deceived by something that is false or misleading; to understand the hidden truth about someone or something.
give a hand
To aid
To encourage or tolerate by indicating approval:
One who actively assists, defends, pleads, prosecutes, speaks, writes, or otherwise supports the cause of another. A lawyer. To speak, write, or otherwise support a cause by argument.
To indicate formally one's approval or support of (a motion, nomination, etc.) as a necessary preliminary to discussion of or a vote on it
Serving to improve or advance; helpful:
(Law) Involving the knowing assistance of a lawbreaker in the commission of a crime without actual participation in the crime.
Presenting favorable circumstances or showing signs of a favorable outcome; propitious:
Of or pertaining to convenience; simple; easy; expedient.
Of, relating to, or formed as an enterprise or organization jointly owned or managed by those who use its facilities or services:
To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show.
The definition of avail is to help or give an advantage.
One that supports, as a structural member of a building.
Receiving benefit
Serving to corroborate
The definition of helpful is someone or something that is useful, that provides assistance or aid, or that is prone to providing aid.
Ready to do favors for others; accommodating.
Boding well; favorable; auspicious
Giving aid, support, service, etc.; serving to supplement; auxiliary
(Psychol.) Increased ease of performance of any action, resulting from the lessening of nerve resistance by the continued successive application of the necessary stimulus
A course of action for enforcing a claim; the right of the holder of a note to demand full payment of that note if the terms are not fully honored; the right to be repaid from the borrower’s or cosigner’s personal assets in excess of the collateral.
Something that restores; esp., something that restores to consciousness, as smelling salts
The definition of a subsidy is money or grants given by the government to support a project, business or industry, or a grant of money or financial support offered to fund an artist, project or other endeavor.
Money granted, as by a government, in support of a study, institution, etc.; subsidy
adminicle
To aid
To speed up or make easy the progress or action of; hasten; facilitate
To bolster is to uplift.
To place or lean (something) against a support
Endorse is defined as to give your approval to someone or something or to authorize the payment of a document by signing with one's signature.
To repair is defined as to fix something.
At a convenient or advantageous time.
Support given to a person or cause
The work or position of a curate; curacy
An encouraging or being encouraged
coadjuvancy
(Rare) cooperation, mutual effort, joint-help
To lessen or reduce:
To work together, esp. in some literary, artistic, or scientific undertaking
To pretend not to see or look (at something wrong or evil), thus giving tacit consent or cooperation; feign ignorance of another's wrongdoing
To aid
To lead (a discussion), as by asking questions, mediating between opposing viewpoints, or ensuring that all participants' views are heard.
To approve, advocate, or support:
The definition of participate is to take part in an activity.
To aid
Stead is defined as to be of service.
Subsidize is to pay part of the costs of producing or doing something.
To aid
The serving of food or the manner in which it is served:
intercede for
To aid
The act of nourishing or the state of being nourished
To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated.
The definition of cooperate is to work together in a positive manner for a common purpose.
work for
To aid
(Usually of a cause) to promote, advocate, or act as a champion for
To help bring about a result; act as a factor:
To aid
To aid
hired help
Employees
Patronize means to be a regular customer of a business.
To support by providing means of existence; bear the expenses of
The definition of maintenance is providing support or upkeep to something.
Something that sustains something else; essential support:
To give moral or spiritual support or encouragement to
Sustain is defined as to support something or to endure a trial or hardship.
help-oneself
Used other than as an idiom: see help.
Plural form of representative
Also used with out: abet
To give support or assistance.
To grow better.
To approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on.
To help establish or organize (a new enterprise), as by securing financial backing:
Antonyms for Help
Prone to halting or hesitation.
Something that blocks, or obstructs; obstacle
A group that owns something:
To oppose is to disapprove of or be against something.
(Archaic) To try to equal or surpass; compete with
To act or work in order to eliminate, curtail, or stop:
To make or become worse
Anything that obstructs; hindrance
The person or persons who control or direct a business or other enterprise.
(Sports) One who is in charge of the training and performance of an athlete or team.
To undermine, impede, or damage.
Check means to test, examine, compare or inspect something to see if it is as it should be.
To act directly against; check, neutralize, or undo the effect of with opposing action
To obstruct or delay the progress of:
The definition of harm is to hurt or damage something.
To damage or impair.
An act of retaliation; a counterattack
A particular form of hurt, damage, or loss:
To be or get in the way of (a view or something to be seen).
To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To make (a quantity) smaller.
To stop or deflect a ball or puck by using one's body.
Words Related to Help
(Intransitive) To provide assistance.
An assistant is defined as a person who helps someone.
Nurse means to drink something slowly.
Relief is the ease of pain, tension, strain or other discomfort.
(Music) The horizontal lines on and between which notes are written or printed: the placement of a note on the staff indicates its pitch
To cure or get rid of (a disease)
To care for medicinally or surgically; to apply medical care to. [from 18th c.]
To meet requirements or needs; satisfy:
To give new health, strength, or spirit to:
help-to
give support
work together
be able
help-out
Synonym Study
- Succor suggests timely help to one in distress to succor a besieged city
- Aid and assist are somewhat more formal and weaker, assist esp. implying a subordinate role in the helper and less need for help she assisted him in his experiments
- Help is the simplest and strongest of these words meaning to supply another with whatever is necessary to accomplish his or her ends or relieve his or her wants
Find another word for help. In this page you can discover 182 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for help, like: succor, assist, guidance, help, aides, back up, improve, cheer, do a service, benefit and do one's part.
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