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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

useful or of service;

e.g. The professor was being critical without really being helpful.

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Similar Words

Advantageous

Beneficent

Beneficial

Benignant

Caring

Complaisant

Conditioning

Conducive

Favorable

Friendly

Good

Kindly

Life-giving

Palliative

Preservative

Profitable

Reparative

Salutary

Useful

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Opposite Words

Adverse

Adversely

Antibiotic

Awkward

Bad

Baleful

Baneful

Biocidal

Calamitous

Cataclysmic

Counter

Counterproductive

Damaging

Dangerous

Deleterious

Destructive

Detrimental

Devastating

Disadvantageous

Disastrous

Evil

Feckless

Harmful

Hostile

Hurtful

Ill

Inconvenient

Ineffective

Ineffectual

Inefficacious

Inefficient

Inimical

Injurious

Insalubrious

Mischievous

Nonproductive

Noxious

Pernicious

Poison

Poisonous

Prejudicial

Ruinous

Toxic

Unfavorable

Unfriendly

Unhelpful

Unprofitable

Unsympathetic

Untoward

Useless

Venomous

Wicked

Worse

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Related Words

Accommodating

Advantageous

Advisable

Attentive

Auspicious

Beneficial

Bracing

Conducive

Confirmatory

Considerate

Constructive

Cordial

Corrective

Desirable

Educative

Efficacious

Enlightening

Favorable

Friendly

Gainful

Gratifying

Healthful

Healthy

Illuminating

Indulgent

Informative

Instructive

Invigorating

Kind

Lucrative

Obliging

Probative

Productive

Profitable

Promising

Propitious

Reformatory

Refreshing

Remedial

Remunerative

Restorative

Rewarding

Salubrious

Salutary

Satisfying

Solicitous

Stimulating

Thoughtful

Tonic

Vital

Wholesome

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