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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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17 words match “HELPFUL”

HELPFUL a.
id; 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.
ADJUVANT a.
Helping; helpful; assisting. [R.] "Adjuvant causes." Howell.
AIDANT a.
Helping; helpful; supplying aid. Shak.
AIDFUL a.
Helpful. [Archaic.] Bp. Hall.
APTITUDE n.
A general fitness or suitableness; adaptation. That sociable and helpful aptitude which God implanted between man and woman. Milton.
ASSISTFUL a.
Helpful.
BENEFICIALLY adv.
In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.
COMFORTABLE a.
Serviceable; helpful. [Obs.] Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her. Shak.
CONDUCIVE a.
Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote. However conducive to the good or our country. Addison.
FURTHERSOME a.
Tending to further, advance, or promote; helpful; advantageous. [R.] You will not find it furthersome. Carlyle.
INSTRUMENTAL a.
Acting as an instrument; serving as a means; contributing to promote; conductive; helpful; serviceable; as, he was instrumental in conducting the business. The head is not more native to the heart, The hand more instrumental to the mouth. Shak.
KINDLY a.
umane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. The shade by which my life was crossed, . . . Has made me kindly with my kind. Tennyson.
OBLIGING a.
Putting under obligation; disposed to oblige or do favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. Addison.
PROFITABLE a.
Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. -- Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Prof"it*a*bly, adv.…
PROPITIOUS a.
Hence, kind; gracious; merciful; helpful; -- said of a person or a divinity. Milton. And now t' assuage the force of this new flame, And make thee [Love] more propitious in my need. Spenser.
PROSPEROUS a.
Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.
USEFUL a.
r profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts. To what can I useful! Milton.…