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helpful English

Meaning helpful meaning

What does helpful mean?

Definitions in simple English

helpful Adjective

— If something is helpful it can or does help in some way. The way you explained that word was very helpful to me. The shop keeper was very helpful in telling use how we could cook the food in the shop.

helpful

— adjective providing assistance or serving a useful function

Synonyms helpful synonyms

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helpful English » English

useful beneficial good accommodating obliging auxiliary advantageous serviceable kind assistant wholesome supportive subservient salutary of use of assistance to neighborly instrumental expedient considerate conducive ancillary willing utile usable support supplemental subsidiary side serve the purpose serendipitous secondary profitable practical patronizing noble merciful lucky kindhearted incidental helping help out handy generous functional friendly fostering favourable effective cooperatively

Topics helpful topics

What do people use helpful to talk about?

Language and thought Want Influence

Advise

What words describe good or bad advice?

good wise bad bum steer advisable helpful constructive positive

Social behavior Behavior Do good to

Help

What words describe a person who helps another?

helpful accommodating cooperative obliging

Work and occupation Work Method Use

Useful

What words describe something that is useful?

useful be of use handy helpful valuable be good for be worth constructive nifty

Examples helpful examples

How do I use helpful in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She thanked him for his helpful advice.

I don't find that helpful.

Tom hasn't been very helpful.

Your advice is always helpful to me.

He may be clever, but he is not very helpful.

Any of these books will be helpful to you.

Your comments were always very helpful to me.

Few treasures are worth as much as a friend who is wise and helpful.

Your advice has always been very helpful to me.

Tom's advice was very helpful.

Noble be man, helpful and good.

There exists a fine line between helpful and destructive fears. But there is a line. Our job is to find it and walk it.

I only wanted to be helpful.

I'm sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

I gave him some helpful advice.

His advice was very helpful.

That's helpful.

That'll be helpful.

That's real helpful.

You've been helpful.

Has Tom been helpful?

Tom was helpful.

Movie subtitles

My companion has been so very helpful and there for me.

He said you were so helpful getting it.

I don't think paintball guns would've been that helpful in this situation.

Most helpful.

That would be helpful.

Pistachio's been very helpful to you so far.

Just trying to be helpful.

If you really want to be helpful, show yourself to the door.

Moreover, before you leave, you could be helpful to us.

Well, that's helpful.

Every advice would be helpful.

He was so nice and helpful.

Young man, could I interest you in a research project in which you could be very helpful?

It can be most helpful to know Ferrari.

Very helpful, I don't think.

You're not being very helpful.

I was only trying to be helpful, that's all.

You've been Immensely helpful.

But on the other hand, a visit from you might be very helpful to the boy.

From now on, I'm going to be just a simple, helpful wife.

Yes, he's been very helpful.

I've met guys like you, and I've met others. people that are helpful and eager to do the right thing, people that get a kick out of helping each other fight the bad guys.

For the natives our expert is always a helpful friend.

You've been most helpful, Christine.

Most helpful. I hope you catch him soon.

You're being very helpful Mr. Lang.

BUT FOR THE RECORD, YOUR FRIEND WAS VERY HELPFUL.

So helpful.

You've been helpful in this place, I don't know east from west.

YOU'VE BEEN SO HELPFUL WITH YOUR SUGGESTIONS AND ADVICE.

I know you just want to be helpful, but, well, it's all such a mess.

Just trying to be helpful, sir.

It can be most helpful to know Signor Ferrari.

I was only trying to be helpful.

Papa, that's really not being very helpful.

Look, I try to be helpful.

The police aren't being helpful on the Marriott case.

News and current affairs

But greater transparency and a more systematic independent evaluation of government policies could be a very helpful step towards solving the perpetual conundrum of outsized deficits.

But because Mubarak regime's is considered moderate, pro-Western, and helpful in the context of Israeli-Palestinian relations, the West's response to this and other abuses remains muted.

No imposed constitution, however elegant it may be, will be very helpful to Coalition forces when confronted with the type of mayhem seen in towns like Fallujah or Najjaf.

On all of these points, the concept of war, to paraphrase US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, is not helpful.

Japan plus Russia plus India, with the US lending a helpful hand, would not only extinguish any prospect of a Sino-centric Asia, but would create the ultimate strategic nightmare for China.

E. B. Wilson, the proverbial giant of cell biology, had the last word, concluding in a brief paper following Rashevsky's presentation that mathematics may be helpful in studying the growth of populations, but not individuals.

It is helpful to review where the world economy now stands.

In China itself, for example, World Bank money has not been so important quantitatively, yet the Chinese generally credit the Bank for having helpful blueprints and information.

This is helpful when people live at the margin - where cutting spending means foregoing food or medicines.

The fact that the existence of exceptional circumstances can now be invoked to distribute the burden of any needed adjustments over more than one year is helpful.

What began as a slogan may turn out to be helpful.

In Italy there is now a controversial statute that will change the rules of criminal procedure in ways that might prove helpful to eminent public figures.

Answers that were touted in the 1960's--revival of the gold standard, or the invention of a common European currency--do not appear to be very helpful any more.

This was a timid but helpful initial step in the right direction.

That is helpful in influencing expectations, because a range of different views from the central bank could confuse the private sector; but it carries the risk of institutional groupthink.

What would be helpful in this respect is an objective FDI Protectionism Observatory that monitors FDI protectionist measures and names and shames countries that adopt them.

But these measures, though helpful, are far from adequate.

In whatever area, a group of more deeply integrated member states would give the Union a noyau dur (a hard core), which might be very helpful in strengthening the EU as a whole.

A little flexibility here should also be a helpful message to those getting restless in Taiwan that China really can accommodate difference.

In answering these questions, it would be helpful to know if the Pakistani intelligence community provided any aid at all to the US effort to locate Bin Laden's hideout.

Perhaps worse still, the profession has failed to provide helpful guidance in steering the world economy out of its current mess.

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