| 单词 | helpful |
| 释义 | helpful (once / 681 pages) adj 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. If you want to be helpful, you find ways to make things easier for others, like holding the door for them. Things can also be helpful — maps, cell phones, dictionaries, and holders for wet umbrellas. Taking good notes and setting your alarm to go off early are helpful tips for days when you have big tests. A discussion is helpful if it teaches you something new or gives you ideas for doing something better. WORD FAMILYhelpful: helpfulest, helpfully, helpfulness, unhelpful+/help: helped, helper, helpful, helping, helpless, helps, self-help/helper: helpers/helping: helpings/helpless: helplesser, helplessest, helplessly, helplessness/unhelpful: unhelpfully, unhelpfulness USAGE EXAMPLESRather than proselytize, Mr. Adams prefers to teach by example, introducing people to healthy foods and providing helpful information. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Most treatments must be maintained to be helpful. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) There is disagreement as well on whether the Bible contains helpful accounts of ancient myths but is not literally true. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) adj providing assistance or serving a useful function Syn|Ant accommodating, accommodative helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation cooperativedone with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit encouraginggiving courage or confidence or hope accommodatingobliging; willing to do favors adjuvantenhancing the action of a medical treatment assistivegiving assistance face-savingmaintaining dignity or prestige facilitativefreeing from difficulty or impediment facilitatoryinducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity implemental, instrumental, subservientserving or acting as a means or aid laborsaving, laboursavingdesigned to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor ministrantgiving practical help to reformative, reformatorytending to reform right-handmost helpful and reliable stabilising, stabilizingcausing to become stable steadyingcausing to become steady useful, utilebeing of use or service unhelpful providing no assistance uncooperativeunwilling to cooperate discouragingdepriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action unaccommodatingoffering no assistance unconstructivenot constructive |
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