Helpful

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Helpful \Help"ful\, a.
     Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Heavens make our presence and our practices
           Pleasant and helpful to him!             --Shak.


     -- {Help"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Help"ful*ness}, n. --Milton.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  helpful
       adj 1: providing assistance or serving a useful function [ant: {unhelpful}]
       2: of service or assistance; "a child who is helpful around the
          house can save the mother many steps"
       3: showing a willingness to cooperate; "a helpful cooperative
          patient"; "parents hope to raise children who are
          considerate and helpful to others"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, virtuous