HELPFUL

helpful

(adjective) providing assistance or serving a useful function

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

helpful (comparative more helpful, superlative most helpful)

Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.

Antonym: unhelpful

Source: Wiktionary


Help"ful, a.

Definition: Furnishing help; giving aid; assistant; useful; salutary. Heavens make our presence and our practices Pleasant and helpful to him! Shak.

– Help"ful*ly, adv.

– Help"ful*ness, n. Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

18 May 2025

OBLIQUE

(adjective) slanting or inclined in direction or course or position--neither parallel nor perpendicular nor right-angled; “the oblique rays of the winter sun”; “acute and obtuse angles are oblique angles”; “the axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base”


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Coffee Trivia

According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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