helpful

[helpĀ·ful]

If you are inclined to assist others in any situation, you are a helpful person. Your actions can also be called helpful, like your helpful habit of doing the dishes every night.

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Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

Adjective S.
showing a willingness to cooperate; "a helpful cooperative patient"; "parents hope to raise children who are considerate and helpful to others"

Adjective
providing assistance or serving a useful function

Adjective S.
of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the house can save the mother many steps"


a.
Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.


Helpful

Help"ful , a. Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him!
-- Help"ful*ly, adv. -- Help"ful*ness, n. Milton.

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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Usage Examples

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

My dad said, 'The thing that I was told that was really helpful was that I mustn't be afraid of the things I was afraid of when I was five years old'. The shock of his childhood had put him in this defensive crouch against the world, and he needed to know that he had a nice wife and kids and it wasn't the same any more.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

I have a lot of responsibilities outside myself. I have a large family. I want to know I can always be helpful.

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.

It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

Learning about the way people process information and their emotions is hugely helpful to my work.

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Other Usage Examples

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

I remember the mentoring experiences of some teachers that I had, like a second term home room teacher in public school that really was very helpful to me.

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.

People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

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