Another word for helpful
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Adjective
Affording benefit
- Having a beneficial use; serviceable:
- Being of practical use:
- In the direction of:
- In a position facing:
- Somewhat before in time:
- Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial:
- Favorable to health; wholesome:
- Presenting favorable circumstances or showing signs of a favorable outcome; auspicious:
- Merciful or kindly:
- Yielding profit; advantageous:
- Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor:
- Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing:
- Serving the desired purpose or end; suitable:
- Advantageous; helpful:
- Encouraging; propitious:
- Manifesting approval; commendatory:
- Favorable; beneficial.
- Kind and gracious.
- Producing or promoting a favorable result; advantageous:
- Involving the receipt of funds, property, or other benefits, as from an insurance policy or trust.
- Organisms that are beneficial to a human endeavor, especially insects that are predators of pests.
- Characterized by or performing acts of kindness or charity.
- Producing benefit; beneficial.
- Beneficent.
- Affording advantage; favorable or beneficial.
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Another word for helpful
Modifier
Useful
- Tending to contribute; making a contribution
- Serving as a means or agency; implemental:
- Of, relating to, or accomplished with an instrument or tool.
- Performed on or written for an instrument.
- Worth having or seeking, as by being useful, advantageous, or pleasing:
- Worth doing or achieving; advisable:
- Arousing desire, especially sexual desire.
- Having many purposes or uses:
- By serendipity; by unexpected good fortune.
- Good, beneficial, favorable, etc..
- Present participle of better.
- getting better
- Present participle of improve.
- Of, relating to, or in the interests of utility:
- Exhibiting or stressing utility over other values; practical:
- Of, characterized by, or advocating utilitarianism.
- Tending to cause or bring something about; contributive:
- Capable of being applied; relevant or appropriate:
- Easily approached or entered.
- Easily obtained:
- Easy to talk to or get along with:
- Capable of being used:
- Fit for use; convenient to use:
- Producing or capable of producing a desired effect.
- Producing or sufficient to produce a desired effect.
- Being in effect; having force; operating:
- Functioning effectively; efficient.
- Engaged in or concerned with physical or mechanical activity.
- Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
- Of or relating to pragmatism.
- Of or relating to pragmatics.
- Of, relating to, governed by, or acquired through practice or action, rather than theory or speculation:
- Manifested in or involving practice:
- Capable of or suitable to being used or put into effect; useful:
- Appropriate to a purpose or an occasion.
- Suited or favorable to one's comfort, purpose, or needs:
- Easy to reach; accessible:
- Close at hand; near:
- Advantageous; helpful:
- Encouraging; propitious:
- Manifesting approval; commendatory:
- Affording advantage; favorable or beneficial.
- Yielding profit; advantageous:
- Of inestimable value; priceless:
- Ready for service; usable:
- Able to give long service; durable:
- Done in cooperation with others:
- Marked by willingness to cooperate; compliant:
- Of, relating to, or formed as an enterprise or organization jointly owned or managed by those who use its facilities or services:
- Constituting or being part of the nature or essence of something; inherent:
- Fundamentally important or necessary:
- Of, relating to, or being a condition or a disease whose cause is unknown:
- Extremely significant or important:
- Vital to the resolution of a crisis or the determination of an outcome:
- Having the form of a cross; cross-shaped.
- Having or expressing a meaning:
- Having or expressing a covert or nonverbal meaning; suggestive:
- Having or likely to have a major effect; important:
- Strongly affecting the course of events or the nature of things; significant:
- Having high social rank or influence; prominent:
- Having or suggesting a consciousness of high position or authority; authoritative:
- Having considerable monetary or material value for use or exchange:
- Of great importance, use, or service:
- Having admirable or esteemed qualities or characteristics:
Antonyms:Curative
- Of or relating to restoration.
- Tending or having the power to restore:
- Something that restores.
- Effecting or designed to effect an improvement; remedial:
- Favorable to health; wholesome:
- Possessing good health:
- Conducive to good health; healthful:
- Indicative of sound, rational thinking or frame of mind:
Obliging
- Having or exhibiting the qualities of a friendly neighbor.
- Having or showing regard for the needs or feelings of others.
- Characterized by careful thought; deliberate.
- Helpful and obliging.
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