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| Main Entry: | helpful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, beneficent |
| Synonyms: | accessible, accommodating, advantageous, applicable, benevolent, conducive, considerate, constructive, convenient, cooperative, crucial, effectual, efficacious, essential, favorable, fortunate, friendly, important, improving, instrumental, invaluable, kind, neighborly, operative, practical, pragmatic, productive, profitable, serviceable, significant, suitable, sympathetic, timely, usable, useful, utilitarian, valuable, bettering, caring, contributive, good for, serendipitous, supportive, symbiotic |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful, injurious, useless, worthless, unconstructive, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | accommodating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing to help |
| Synonyms: | considerate, cooperative, friendly, generous, handy, helpful, hospitable, kind, neighborly, obliging, on tap*, polite, unselfish, on deck, user friendly |
| Antonyms: | disobliging, alienating, estranged |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | advantageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable |
| Synonyms: | auspicious, beneficial, expedient, fortunate, helpful, opportune, profitable, propitious, worthwhile, for the best |
| Main Entry: | beneficial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous |
| Synonyms: | benign, constructive, favorable, gainful, good, healthful, helpful, profitable, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, useful, valuable, wholesome, worthy, favoring, good for what ails you, what the doctor ordered |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, unfortunate, hurting, unhelpful, unrewarding |
| Main Entry: | benevolent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | charitable, kind |
| Synonyms: | altruistic, beneficent, benign, big, big-hearted, bountiful, chivalrous, compassionate, considerate, generous, helpful, humane, humanitarian, kindhearted, liberal, magnanimous, philanthropic, tenderhearted, warmhearted, all heart, bounteous, caring, well-disposed |
| Antonyms: | greedy, malevolent, mean, selfish, spiteful, unkind |
| Main Entry: | conducive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable for |
| Synonyms: | accessory, helpful, leading, tending, useful, calculated to produce, contributive, contributory, productive of, promotive |
| Antonyms: | adverse, discouraging, unfavorable, hindering, unconducive, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | cultural |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | educational, enlightening |
| Synonyms: | artistic, beneficial, broadening, constructive, corrective, helpful, humane, humanizing, influential, instructive, learned, liberal, nurturing, refined, refining, stimulating, uplifting, adorning, advancing, beautifying, civilizing, developmental, dignifying, disciplining, edifying, educative, elevating, ennobling, enriching, expanding, glorifying, inspirational, liberalizing, ornamenting, polishing, promoting, raising, regenerative, socializing, widening |
| Main Entry: | curative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healing, health-giving |
| Synonyms: | beneficial, corrective, curing, healthful, helpful, invigorating, medicinal, pick-me-up*, remedial, restorative, salutary, therapeutic, tonic, wholesome, alleviative, medicable, medicative, remedying, sanative, shot in the arm, vulnerary, what the doctor ordered |
| Antonyms: | harmful, injurious, painful, hurting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expedient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worthwhile, appropriate |
| Synonyms: | ad hoc, advantageous, advisable, beneficial, convenient, desirable, discreet, effective, feasible, fit, fitting, helpful, judicious, meet, opportune, politic, possible, practicable, practical, pragmatic, profitable, proper, prudent, seasonable, suitable, tactical, timely, useful, utilitarian, wise |
| Antonyms: | inappropriate, inexpedient, unprofitable, unbeneficial, unworthwhile |
| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, lucky, on a roll*, opportune, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do, born with a silver spoon, gaining, get a break, in luck, in the gravy, overcoming, providential, sunny side |
| Notes: | fortunate means having unexpected good fortune or luck; fortuitous means happening by chance or coming or occurring by accident or without any known cause |
| Antonyms: | adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | friendly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intimate, companionable |
| Synonyms: | affable, affectionate, amiable, amicable, attentive, auspicious, beneficial, benevolent, benign, chummy*, civil, close, conciliatory, convivial, cordial, faithful, familiar, favorable, fond, genial, good, helpful, kind, kindly, loving, loyal, neighborly, outgoing, peaceable, peaceful, propitious, receptive, sociable, solicitous, sympathetic, tender, thick, attached, buddy-buddy*, clubby, comradely, confiding, on good terms, welcoming, well-disposed* |
| Antonyms: | aloof, antagonistic, cold, cool, incompatible, unfriendly, unsociable, uncompanionable, unreceptive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | good-natured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, easily pleased |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, altruistic, amiable, benevolent, bighearted, breezy, charitable, complaisant, compliant, cordial, easy, even-tempered, friendly, good-humored, gracious, helpful, kind, kindly, lenient, mild, moderate, nice, obliging, tolerant, warmhearted, acquiescent, good-hearted, marshmallow, softie, well-disposed, willing to please |
| Antonyms: | bad, mean |
| Main Entry: | humane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, compassionate |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, altruistic, amiable, approachable, benevolent, benign, broad-minded, charitable, clement, considerate, cordial, democratic, forbearing, forgiving, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, helpful, human, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, liberal, magnanimous, merciful, mild, natural, obliging, open-minded, philanthropic, righteous, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, unselfish, warmhearted, benignant, pitying |
| Antonyms: | cruel, fierce, merciless, uncivilized, unkind, unsympathetic, violent, inhumane, uncompassionate |
| Main Entry: | infallible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unerring, dependable |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, accurate, agreeable, authoritative, certain, correct, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, exact, faultless, flawless, foolproof, handy, helpful, impeccable, incontrovertible, omniscient, perfect, positive, reliable, satisfactory, satisfying, sure, true, trustworthy, unbeatable, unfailing, unimpeachable, unquestionable, useful, apodictic, inerrable, inerrant, surefire, undeceivable |
| Antonyms: | erring, fallible, faulty, imperfect |
| Main Entry: | instructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informative |
| Synonyms: | educational, explanatory, helpful, illuminating, instructional, useful, educative, enlightening, informational |
| Main Entry: | instrumental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential, assisting |
| Synonyms: | active, auxiliary, conducive, helpful, helping, involved, serviceable, subsidiary, useful, contributory, of help, of service, partly responsible |
| Antonyms: | useless, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | invaluable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | priceless |
| Synonyms: | costly, dear, expensive, helpful, inestimable, precious, serviceable, valuable, beyond price |
| Antonyms: | worthless |
| Main Entry: | neighborly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| Synonyms: | amiable, civil, companionable, considerate, cooperative, cordial, genial, gracious, gregarious, harmonious, helpful, hospitable, kind, obliging, sociable, social, well-disposed |
| Antonyms: | cold, distant, unfriendly, unsociable, unneighborly |
| Main Entry: | openhanded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous |
| Synonyms: | altruistic, benevolent, big, big-hearted, bountiful, charitable, considerate, giving, helpful, hospitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, liberal, magnanimous, philanthropic, thoughtful, unselfish |
| Main Entry: | opportune |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous, lucky |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, apt, auspicious, convenient, favorable, felicitous, fit, fitting, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, helpful, pat, proper, propitious, seasonable, suitable, timely, well-timed, timeous |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, inauspicious, inopportune, unlucky, unsuitable |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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