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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Helpful \Help"ful\, adjective Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him! --Shak. -- {Help"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Help"ful*ness}, noun --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
helpful
adjective
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
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