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Webster 1913 Edition

Helpful

Help′ful

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Adj.

Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary.

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Help′ful-ly

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adv.

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Help′ful-ness

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Noun.

Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Helpful

HELP'FUL

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Adj.

That gives aid or assistance; that furnishes means of promoting an object; useful.

1.

Wholesome; salutary; as helpful medicines.

Definition 2024

helpful

helpful

English

Alternative forms

helpfull (archaic)

Adjective

helpful ‎(comparative more helpful, superlative most helpful)

Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.

Translations

furnishing help; giving aid; useful

Afrikaans:
Arabic: نَافِع ‎(nāfiʿ), مُفِيد ‎(mufīd)
Bulgarian:
Catalan: útil (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有幫助 (zh), 有帮助 (zh) ‎(yǒubāngzhù)
Czech: nápomocný m
Danish: hjælpsom
Dutch: behulpzaam (nl)
Esperanto: helpema
Finnish: auttava (fi), hyödyllinen (fi)
French: utile (fr) m, f, serviable (fr) m, f
Georgian: დამხმარე ‎(damxmare), მარგებელი ‎(margebeli), სასარგებლო ‎(sasargeblo), გამოსადეგი ‎(gamosadegi), ვარგისი ‎(vargisi)
German: hilfreich (de)
Gujarati:
Hindi:
Hungarian: segítőkész (hu), készséges (hu), szolgálatkész (hu), hasznos (hu)
Icelandic: hjálpsamur, gagnlegt

Ido: helpema (io)
Irish: cúntach
Italian: disponibile (it)
Japanese: 役に立つ (ja) ‎(yakunitatsu), 有用 (ja) ‎(yūyō)
Javanese:
Latin:
Norwegian: hjelpsom
Persian:
Polish: pomocny (pl), uczynny (pl) (of people)
Portuguese: prestável (pt)
Romanian: util (ro), ajutător (ro) m
Russian: поле́зный (ru) ‎(poléznyj), (of people) любе́зный (ru) ‎(ljubéznyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Spanish: servicial (es), útil (es)
Swahili:
Swedish: hjälpsam (sv)
Telugu:
Urdu:
Vietnamese: hay giúp đỡ

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