Adjectives for helpful
56 Synonyms & Antonyms of HELPFUL
helpful
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as in useful
providing service or assistance a website that I've always found to be helpful for finding information on common medical problems
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useful
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beneficial
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conducive
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advantageous
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efficacious
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accommodating
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facilitative
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profitable
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favorable
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obliging
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productive
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salutary
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useless
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ineffective
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unhelpful
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unfavorable
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ineffectual
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adverse
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inconvenient
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disadvantageous
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profitless
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useless
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ineffective
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unhelpful
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unfavorable
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ineffectual
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adverse
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inconvenient
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as in beneficial
promoting or contributing to personal or social well-being the teachers felt that it would be helpful to have more than one thesaurus in the classroom
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beneficial
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favorable
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friendly
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good
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satisfying
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kindly
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profitable
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advantageous
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desirable
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beneficent
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salutary
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supportive
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benignant
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rewarding
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gratifying
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promising
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lucrative
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benefic
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constructive
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healthy
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healthful
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advisable
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propitious
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auspicious
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wholesome
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gainful
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remunerative
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salubrious
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bettering
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ameliorative
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salutiferous
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amelioratory
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unhelpful
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bad
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unfriendly
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unfavorable
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disadvantageous
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unprofitable
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harmful
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damaging
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injurious
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deleterious
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insalubrious
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unhelpful
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bad
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unfriendly
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unfavorable
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disadvantageous
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unprofitable
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harmful
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damaging
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injurious
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HELPFUL Synonyms: 69 Synonyms & Antonyms for HELPFUL
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- adj.beneficial, beneficent
synonyms for helpful
- accessible
- advantageous
- applicable
- conducive
- constructive
- convenient
- cooperative
- crucial
- essential
- favorable
- friendly
- important
- invaluable
- practical
- productive
- profitable
- significant
- suitable
- supportive
- sympathetic
- timely
- useful
- valuable
- accommodating
- benevolent
- bettering
- caring
- considerate
- contributive
- effectual
- efficacious
- fortunate
- good for
- improving
- instrumental
- kind
- neighborly
- operative
- pragmatic
- serendipitous
- serviceable
- symbiotic
- usable
- utilitarian
See also synonyms for: helpfully / helpfulness / unhelpful
antonyms for helpful
MOST RELEVANT
- cold
- cool
- disagreeable
- hindering
- hurting
- inappropriate
- inessential
- injurious
- inopportune
- insignificant
- minor
- nonessential
- trivial
- unfavorable
- unfriendly
- unhelpful
- unimportant
- unsociable
- unsuitable
- useless
- worthless
- disadvantageous
- harmful
- hurtful
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WORDS RELATED TO HELPFUL
- considerate
- cooperative
- friendly
- generous
- handy
- helpful
- hospitable
- kind
- neighborly
- obliging
- on deck
- on tap
- polite
- unselfish
- user friendly
- auspicious
- beneficial
- expedient
- for the best
- fortunate
- helpful
- opportune
- profitable
- propitious
- worthwhile
- altruistic
- beneficial
- benevolent
- benign
- benignant
- big-hearted
- charitable
- favorable
- generous
- good
- helpful
- humanitarian
- kind
- propitious
- useful
- altruistic
- benevolent
- benign
- big-hearted
- charitable
- compassionate
- generous
- helpful
- humanitarian
- kind
- philanthropic
- benign
- constructive
- favorable
- favoring
- gainful
- good
- good for what ails you
- healthful
- helpful
- profitable
- propitious
- salubrious
- salutary
- serviceable
- toward
- useful
- valuable
- what the doctor ordered
- wholesome
- worthy
- all heart
- altruistic
- beneficent
- benign
- big
- big-hearted
- bounteous
- bountiful
- caring
- chivalrous
- compassionate
- considerate
- generous
- helpful
- humane
- humanitarian
- kindhearted
- liberal
- magnanimous
- philanthropic
- tenderhearted
- warmhearted
- well-disposed
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Synonyms and antonyms "useful" - analysis and associations to the word useful. Morphological analysis and declension of words
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Translation of useful
We offer you a translation of useful into English, German and French.
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- English
- German
- French
- useful — convenient, valuable
- useful property - useful property
nine0003 beneficial - beneficial, fruitful - beneficial use
- rewarding experience
- good - good
- good advice
- healthy - healthy nine0002
- healthy habits
- wholesome breakfast
- utility model - utility model
- practical information
- salutary lesson
- nützlich - profitable, ready to help
- most useful in combat - nützlich im Kampf
- especially the most useful - besonders hilfreiche nine0009
- behilflich
- von Nutzen
- sinnvoll - expedient
- gesund - healthy
- useful products - gesunde Lebensmittel
nine0003 praktisch - expedient, practical - brauchbar - fit
- less useful - weniger brauchbar
- nutzbar - fit
- useful energy - nutzbare Energie
- nine0049 heilsam - healing
- nutzbringend - profitable
- bekömmlich - healthy
- nütze - fit
- nützt
- zutraglich - beneficent
- dienlich
- förderlich
- sachdienlich - expedient
- utility useful, convenient, valuable
- usable energy - énergie utilisable
- sain - healthy, successful
- beneficial bacteria
- avantageux - interesting, profitable
- be more useful - être plus avantageux
- salutaire - salutary nine0004
- enrichissant - grateful
- une expérience enrichissante
- pertinent current
- adjuvant - helping
- cultivable nine0003 expédient - convenient
Relationship with other words
Words ending in -useful:
- useless
- useless
- useful
- useless
Hypo-hyperonymic relations
good useful effective
What or who is useful (nouns)? nine0037
Antonyms of the word useful
useless harmful
Hypernyms of the word useful
- good
Hyponyms of the word useful
- effective fruitful suitable
- constructive
- readable
Scope of the word useful
Technique General vocabularyCosmonauticsOil and gas Mining
Morphological analysis (part of speech) of the word useful
Declension of the word useful by cases
useful is an adjective, masculine.
Full form
| Case | Singular unit | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Male m.s. | Feminine | Medium | ||
| Nominative Name. | what? | which one? | what? | which ones? |
| useful | useful | useful | useful | |
| Genitive nine0382 | what? | what? | what? | what? |
| useful | useful | useful | useful | |
| DativeDat. | what? | what? | what? | what? |
| useful | useful | useful | helpful | |
| Accusative (animate) Vin. shower nine0382 | what? | what? | what? | what? |
| useful | useful | useful | useful | |
| Accusative (inanimate) Vin.  inanimate | what? | what? | what? | what? |
| useful | useful | useful | useful | |
| CreativeTV. nine0382 | what? | what? | what? | what? |
| useful | useful, useful | helpful | useful | |
| prepositional | about what? | about what? | about what? | about what? |
| useful | useful | useful | useful | |
Short form
The adjective useful in the short form does not decline for cases, but changes for numbers and genders in the singular. nine0037
| Singular Sing. | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Male m.s. | Feminine | Intermediate cf. | |
| what? | what is it? | what is it? | what are? |
| useful | useful | helpful | useful |
Superlatives
| Case | Singular unit | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Male m. s. | Feminine | Medium | ||
| Nominative Name. | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful |
| Genitive | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful |
| DativeDat. | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful |
| Accusative (animate) Vin. shower | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful |
| Accusative (inanimate) Vin. inanimate | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful | most useful, most useful |
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