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helpful
CIDE DICTIONARY
helpful, a.
Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary. [1913 Webster]
"Heavens make our presence and our practices
Pleasant and helpful to him!"
Pleasant and helpful to him!"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
helpful, n. (of a person or thing) giving help; useful.
Derivative
helpfully adv. helpfulness n.
THESAURUS
helpful
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, virtuousROGET THESAURUS
helpful
Aid
N aid, aidance, assistance, help, opitulation, succor, support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion, coadjuvancy, patronage, championship, countenance, favor, interest, advocacy, sustentation, subvention, alimentation, nutrition, nourishment, eutrophy, manna in the wilderness, food, means, ministry, ministration, subministration, accommodation, relief, rescue, help at a dead lift, supernatural aid, deus ex machina, supplies, reinforcements, reenforcements, succors, contingents, recruits, support, adjunct, ally, aiding, auxiliary, adjuvant, helpful, coadjuvant, subservient, ministrant, ancillary, accessory, subsidiary, at one's beck, at one's beck and call, friendly, amicable, favorable, propitious, well-disposed, neighborly, obliging, with the aid, by the aid of, on behalf of, in behalf of, in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of, on account of, for the sake of, on the part of, non obstante, Int, help!, save us!, to the rescue!, alterum alterius auxilio eget, God befriend us as our cause is just, at your service.For further exploring for "helpful" in Webster Dictionary Online