Helpful
['helpfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['hɛlpfl]
Definition
(a.) Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.
Checker: Ophelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Useful, beneficial, convenient.[2]. Wholesome, salutary.
Typist: Stephanie
Examples
- Even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I can put my hand out, to do any little helpful work for her that my hand can find to do, without that. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She has been for some time living with my young companion, and has been a helpful and a comfortable friend to her. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Biddy, looking very neat and modest in her black dress, went quietly here and there, and was very helpful. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The Greek states remained inert thereafter, neither troublesome nor helpful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She said to her own irremediable grief, that it should make her more helpful, instead of driving her back from effort. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I rather miss my wild girl, but if I get a strong, helpful, tenderhearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Since baking powders in some form are used in almost all homes for the raising of cake and pastry dough, it is essential that their helpful and harmful qualities be clearly understood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Heat, if properly regulated and controlled, would never be injurious to man; hence in the following paragraphs heat will be considered merely in its helpful capacity. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- For abstraction deliberately selects from the subject matter of former experiences that which is thought helpful in dealing with the new. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Other people solve it for them by saying, 'Your place is to do good to others, to be helpful whenever help is wanted. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- May it love her and be dootiful to her, in her old age; helpful of her at the last; a Angel to her heer, and heerafter! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Precious and helpful hours to Jo, for now her heart received the teaching that it needed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We cannot entertain the conception of a world in which knowledge of its past would not be helpful in forecasting and giving meaning to its future. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Not all micro?rganisms are harmful; some are our friends and are as helpful to us as are cultivated plants and domesticated animals. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
Typist: Stephanie