helpful Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective providing assistance or serving a useful function

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Help"ful adjective
Definitions
  1. 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.

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