Word Meanings - HELPFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HELPFUL)

• Auxiliary
• Helpful
• abetting
• aiding
• accessory
• promotive
• conducive
• assistant
• ancillary
• assisting
• subsidiary
• helping
• Convenient
• Handy
• apt
• adapted
• fitted
• suitable
• helpful
• commodious
• useful
• timely
• seasonable
• opportune
• Near
• convenient
• manageable
• dexterous
• ready
• expert
• Subsidiary
• Assistant
• adjuvant
• favourable
• adminicular
• corroborative
• tending
• Useful
• Advantageous
• profitable
• serviceable
• beneficial
• available
• suited

Related words: (words related to HELPFUL)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• EXPERT
  Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• AIDANCE
  Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
• AIDFUL
  Helpful. Bp. Hall.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• ASSISTANCE
  1. The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak. 2. An assistant or helper; a body of helpers. Wat Tyler killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance,
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• ASSIST
  To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak. Syn. -- To help; aid; second; back; support; relieve; succor; befriend; sustain; favor. See Help.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• PROFITABLE
  Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• ABETTAL
  Abetment.
• HANDMAID; HANDMAIDEN
  A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• SPAID
  See SPADE
• DAYMAID
  A dairymaid.
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• SAID
  imp. & p. p. of Say.
• UNEXPERTLY
  In an unexpert manner.