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Main Entry: help
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assistance, relief
Synonyms: advice, aid, assist, avail, balm*, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility
Antonyms: check, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop, blockage, counteraction
Main Entry: help
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: aid, assist
Synonyms: abet, accommodate, advocate, back, ballyhoo*, be of use, befriend, benefit, bolster, boost, buck up*, cheer, cooperate, do a favor, do a service, do one's part, encourage, endorse, further, go to bat for*, go with, hype*, intercede, lend a hand, maintain, open doors, patronize, plug*, promote, prop, puff*, push, relieve, root for, sanction, save, second, see through, serve, stand by, stick up for, stimulate, stump for, succor, support, sustain, take under one's wing, uphold, work for
Antonyms: block, check, counteract, harm, hinder, hurt, injure, obstruct, stop
Main Entry: help
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: employee
Synonyms: abettor, adjutant, aide, ally, assistant, attendant, auxiliary, collaborator, colleague, deputy, domestic, hand, helper, helpmate, mate, partner, representative, servant, subsidiary, supporter, worker, ancilla, right-hand person
Antonyms: management, ownership
Main Entry: help
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: improve
Synonyms: alleviate, ameliorate, amend, attend, better, cure, doctor, ease, facilitate, heal, meliorate, mitigate, nourish, palliate, relieve, remedy, restore, revive, treat
Antonyms: decrease, harm, hinder, hurt, injure, worsen
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Main Entry: help
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
adjutorious, adjuvant, ancillary, at one's beck, auxiliary, cataskeuastic, coadjuvant, favorable, friendly, helpful, ministrant, neighborly, obliging, propitious, subservient, subsidiary, succursal, well
Main Entry: advantage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: benefit, favored position or circumstance
Synonyms: aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence
Notes: advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage
Antonyms: disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction
Main Entry: advice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: recommendation
Synonyms: admonition, advisement, advocacy, aid, bum steer*, caution, charge, consultation, counsel, directions, dissuasion, encouragement, exhortation, forewarning, guidance, help, information, injunction, input, instruction, judgment, lesson, news, opinion, persuasion, prescription, proposal, proposition, recommendation, steer, suggestion, teaching, telltale, tidings, tip, tip-off, two cents' worth, view, warning, word, word to the wise
Antonyms: betrayal, deceit, deception, falsehood, lie, misinformation, misrepresentation
Main Entry: ameliorate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make, become better
Synonyms: alleviate, amend, help, improve, lighten, meliorate, mitigate, relieve, step up, upgrade
Antonyms: worsen
Main Entry: amend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: improve, correct
Synonyms: alter, ameliorate, better, change, elevate, enhance, fix, help, lift, make up for, mend, modify, pay one's dues, raise, rectify, reform, remedy, repair, revise, right, square*
Antonyms: blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, harm, impair, injure, mar, reduce, subtract, worsen
Main Entry: assistance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: help
Synonyms: aid, assist, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, furtherance, hand, help, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, sustenance, abetment, facilitation
Antonyms: hindrance, hurt, injury, stop, stoppage
Main Entry: assistant
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: helper
Synonyms: abettor, accessory, accomplice, adherent, adjunct, aide, ally, appointee, apprentice, associate, attendant, auxiliary, backer, backup*, coadjutor, collaborator, colleague, companion, confederate, deputy, flunky*, follower, friend, gofer*, help, helpmate, mate, partner, patron, peon*, representative, secretary, subordinate, supporter, coadjutant, cooperator, fellow worker, right-hand person, temp, temporary worker
Main Entry: backing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: support
Synonyms: accompaniment, adherence, advocacy, aegis, aid, assistance, auspices, championship, encouragement, endorsement, funds, grant, help, patronage, reinforcement, sanction, sponsorship, subsidy, abetment, championing, secondment
Antonyms: disfavor, opposition
Main Entry: befriend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make social acquaintance; support
Synonyms: advise, aid, assist, back, benefit, buddy up, case out, come on to, cotton to, encourage, favor, get chummy with, get in with, help, hit it off*, patronize, side with, stand by, sustain, take under one's wing, take up with, uphold, welcome
Antonyms: ignore, neglect
Main Entry: behalf
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: personal interest
Synonyms: account, advantage, aid, assistance, benefit, cause, concern, countenance, defense, encouragement, favor, furtherance, good, help, part, place, profit, recommendation, representation, sake, service, side, support, welfare, stead
Main Entry: better
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: improve performance; outdo
Synonyms: advance, ameliorate, amend, beat, best, cap, correct, enhance, exceed, excel, forward, further, help, meliorate, mend, outshine, outstrip, promote, raise, rectify, refine, reform, revamp, surpass, top, transcend
Antonyms: deteriorate, worsen, get worse
Main Entry: bolster
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: help
Synonyms: aid, assist, bear up, boost, brace, buck up, bulwark, buoy, buttress, carry, cushion, help, hold up, maintain, pick up, pillow, prop, reinforce, stay, strengthen, support, sustain, uphold, shore up
Antonyms: hinder, obstruct, prevent, undermine, not support
Main Entry: boon
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: advantage
Synonyms: benefaction, benefit, benevolence, blessing, break, compliment, donation, favor, gift, godsend, good, grant, gratuity, help, largess, present, windfall, good fortune
Antonyms: disadvantage
Main Entry: comfort
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make to feel better
Synonyms: abate, aid, allay, alleviate, ameliorate, assist, assuage, bolster, buck up*, calm, cheer, compose, condole, confirm, console, delight, divert, ease, encourage, enliven, free, gladden, hearten, help, invigorate, mitigate, nourish, reassure, refresh, relieve, remedy, revive, salve, soften, solace, soothe, strengthen, stroke, succor, support, sustain, sympathize, uphold, commiserate with, grant respite, inspirit, lighten burden, make well, put at ease, quiet fears, reanimate, revitalize, upraise
Antonyms: aggravate, annoy, bother, distress, exasperate, hurt, irritate, provoke, torment, torture, trouble, vex
Main Entry: consolation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: relief, comfort
Synonyms: cheer, comfort, compassion, ease, easement, encouragement, fellow feeling, help, pity, solace, succor, support, sympathy, alleviation, assuagement, lenity
Antonyms: agitation, annoyance, antagonism, discouragement, disturbance, trouble, upset
Main Entry: cooperate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: aid, assist
Synonyms: abet, advance, agree, back up, band, befriend, chip in, coincide, collaborate, combine, concert, concur, conspire, contribute, coordinate, espouse, forward, further, help, league*, participate, partner, pitch in*, play ball*, second, succor, unite, uphold, be in cahoots, coadjute, comply with, conduce, go along with, join forces, join in, lend a hand, pool resources, pull together, share in, show willingness, side with, stick together, take part, work side by side, work together
Antonyms: block, delay, disturb, encumber, handicap, hinder, impede, obstruct, prevent, stop
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