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1. Providing assistance or serving a useful function
   "he's both kind and helpful"

See also: accommodating, accommodative, adjuvant, assistive, cooperative, encouraging, face-saving, facilitative, facilitatory, helpfully, helpfulness, implemental, instrumental, laborsaving, laboursaving, ministrant, reformative, reformatory, right-hand, stabilising [Brit], stabilizing, steadying, subservient, useful, utile

Antonym: unhelpful

Encyclopedia: Helpful