单词	unhelpful
释义	unhelpfulun‧help‧ful /ʌnˈhelpfəl/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The customs officials were impatient, rude, and unhelpful. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Among the remaining patients, computed tomography was helpful in 19%, but unhelpful or wrong in 23%. But a national debate on architecture at this level is as banal as it is unhelpful. For anyone not already familiar with these works, the presentation is unhelpful. None of this behaviour adopted by professionals is intended to be unhelpful. The large number of parses produced are unnecessary and unhelpful in the recognition application. This is ultimately unhelpful to women. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorwords for describing someone or something that is not helpful► not helpful/unhelpful · He bought a book on relaxation techniques but it wasn't very helpful.· The authorities weren't helpful at all when Rob reported his passport stolen.· I found the sales assistants most unhelpful. ► be no help/not be any help/not be much help if something or someone is no help they do not help you do something or get something: · Clarissa was no help - she just sat around and watched TV.· The phrase book wasn't much help in carrying on a conversation. ► uncooperative not wanting to help someone who wants you to help them, especially by deliberately opposing them or stopping them doing something easily: · Many of the older patients are uncooperative and difficult for the nurses to handle.· Hubbel has been a very uncooperative witness. ► useless especially spoken not giving any help - use this when you are annoyed with someone or something because they should help you but they do not: · I tried calling the tax office but they were completely useless.completely/absolutely useless: · There's no point reading the instructions - they're completely useless. ► not lift a finger if someone does not lift a finger , they do not help when help is wanted or needed, especially because they are lazy: · She stayed with us for two weeks and never lifted a finger the whole time.· Police knew there would be a fight, but they didn't lift a finger to try and stop it. Word family WORD FAMILYnounhelphelperhelpfulness ≠ unhelpfulnesshelpinghelplessnessadjectivehelpful ≠ unhelpfulhelplessadverbhelpfully ≠ unhelpfullyhelplesslyverbhelp not helping in a situation and sometimes making it worse:  The authorities are being particularly unhelpful.—unhelpfully adverb—unhelpfulness noun [uncountable]
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