| Main Entry: | helping hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance |
Synonyms: |
aid, assist, boost, hand, help, leg up, lift, support |
| Main Entry: | assist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
Synonyms: |
abetment, aid, assistance, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, facilitation, furtherance, hand, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support |
Antonyms: |
hindrance, hurt, stop, stoppage, thwarting |
| Main Entry: | assistance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help |
Synonyms: |
abetment, aid, assist, backing, benefit, boost, collaboration, comfort, compensation, cooperation, facilitation, furtherance, hand, help, helping hand, lift, reinforcement, relief, service, support, sustenance |
Antonyms: |
hindrance, hurt, injury, stop, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | encouragement |
Synonyms: |
aid, assistance, backup, buildup, goose, hand*, handout, help, helping hand, improvement, leg up, leg*, lift, praise, promotion, shot in the arm, support |
Antonyms: |
discouragement, hindrance |
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generosity, gift |
Synonyms: |
alms, alms-giving, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, gifting, hand*, hand-out, helping hand, largesse, oblation, offering, philanthropy, relief, write-off |
Antonyms: |
stealing, taking |
| Main Entry: | contribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift, offering |
Synonyms: |
a hand, addition, alms, augmentation, benefaction, beneficence, bestowal, charity, do one's part, donation, gifting, grant, handout, helping hand, improvement, increase, input, present, significant addition, subscription, supplement, write-off |
| 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: |
blockage, check, counteraction, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop |
| Main Entry: | philanthropy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humanitarianism |
Synonyms: |
alms, alms-giving, altruism, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, charity, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, generosity, gifting, good works, helping hand, relief |
| Main Entry: | start |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage |
Synonyms: |
allowance, backing, break, bulge, chance, draw, edge, handicap, head start, helping hand, introduction, lead, odds, opening, opportunity, sponsorship, vantage |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | Good Samaritan |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | helping person |
Synonyms: |
Johnny-on-the-spot, Samaritan, boy scout, do-gooder, good neighbor, helping hand, humanitarian |