Helpful
adjective
Something or someone that gives assistance or makes things easier.
Your tips were really helpful in solving this problem.
Often appears as...
- extremely helpful
- really helpful
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Approving
adjective
Something or someone that gives assistance or makes things easier.
Your tips were really helpful in solving this problem.
Often appears as...
- extremely helpful
- really helpful
Usage tips
Approving
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Pro Tip 1/3Offering Support
Use 'helpful' to praise someone who provides useful support or assistance.
Monica was helpful in organizing the event.
Pro Tip 2/3Inanimate Assistance
'Helpful' can describe objects that aid tasks, not just people.
The manual was helpful for understanding the software.
Pro Tip 3/3Subtle Encouragement
'Helpful' carries a positive tone, implying encouragement and approval.
His feedback was helpful, making me feel more confident.
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Poetry makes people...
certainly silly and perhaps even a little bit vulgar and although I usually mean it in mild jest it's also pretty helpful for me whenever I travel to schools and colleges to perform and teach spoken word poetry I always meet people who say oh I don't like poetry or I don't get poetry or poetry's just not
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Filming The Kangaroo...
freezing it was we had snow storms we got stuck on the mountains we bought shorts and walking shoes and t-shirts and uh yeah day two we had to go and find a shop and buy jumpers this area is grasslands with forests that was actually really helpful for filming the kangaroos because they actually
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The psychology of...
Anything that promotes honest reflection on their own behavior and caring for others, like psychotherapy or practicing compassion towards others, can be helpful. The difficulty is it can be challenging for people with narcissistic personality disorder to keep working at self-betterment.
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Julian Baggini: Is there...
the self is an illusion, it's a fiction. But I don't think this is a very helpful way of looking at it. Go back to the watch. The watch isn't an illusion, because there is nothing to the watch other than a collection of its parts. In the same way, we're not illusions either.
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Can you solve...
After a few hours of expert sleuthing, you gather some clues. It may look like a lot of information, but there's a clear logical path to the solution. Solving the puzzle will be a lot like Sudoku, so you may find it helpful to organize your information in a grid, like this.
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Why do we cry? The three...
So, emotional tears are sent in to stabilize the mood as quickly as possible, along with other physical reactions, such as an increased heart rate and slower breathing. But scientists still aren't sure exactly how or why the tears themselves are helpful.
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How the food you eat...
Fermented foods are teeming with helpful probiotic bacteria, like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world.
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What is depression? -...
In extreme cases, electroconvulsive therapy, which is like a controlled seizure in the patient's brain, is also very helpful. Other promising treatments, like transcranial magnetic stimulation, are being investigated, too.
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How a Woman's Donated...
been involved with hospitals and children that my body was always ready for donation what she really wanted was to be helpful to medical students to people learning an enemy she really wanted those students to understand
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How does caffeine keep...
to compete. Of course, not all of caffeine's effects are so helpful. It might make you feel better and more alert, but it can also raise your heart rate and blood pressure, cause increased urination or diarrhea,
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Poetry makes people...
certainly silly and perhaps even a little bit vulgar and although I usually mean it in mild jest it's also pretty helpful for me whenever I travel to schools and colleges to perform and teach spoken word poetry I always meet people who say oh I don't like poetry or I don't get poetry or poetry's just not
Video examples
Filming The Kangaroo...
freezing it was we had snow storms we got stuck on the mountains we bought shorts and walking shoes and t-shirts and uh yeah day two we had to go and find a shop and buy jumpers this area is grasslands with forests that was actually really helpful for filming the kangaroos because they actually
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The psychology of...
Anything that promotes honest reflection on their own behavior and caring for others, like psychotherapy or practicing compassion towards others, can be helpful. The difficulty is it can be challenging for people with narcissistic personality disorder to keep working at self-betterment.
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Julian Baggini: Is there...
the self is an illusion, it's a fiction. But I don't think this is a very helpful way of looking at it. Go back to the watch. The watch isn't an illusion, because there is nothing to the watch other than a collection of its parts. In the same way, we're not illusions either.
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Can you solve...
After a few hours of expert sleuthing, you gather some clues. It may look like a lot of information, but there's a clear logical path to the solution. Solving the puzzle will be a lot like Sudoku, so you may find it helpful to organize your information in a grid, like this.
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Why do we cry? The three...
So, emotional tears are sent in to stabilize the mood as quickly as possible, along with other physical reactions, such as an increased heart rate and slower breathing. But scientists still aren't sure exactly how or why the tears themselves are helpful.
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How the food you eat...
Fermented foods are teeming with helpful probiotic bacteria, like lactobacillus and bifidobacteria. Originally used as a way of preserving foods before the invention of refrigeration, fermentation remains a traditional practice all over the world.
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What is depression? -...
In extreme cases, electroconvulsive therapy, which is like a controlled seizure in the patient's brain, is also very helpful. Other promising treatments, like transcranial magnetic stimulation, are being investigated, too.
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How a Woman's Donated...
been involved with hospitals and children that my body was always ready for donation what she really wanted was to be helpful to medical students to people learning an enemy she really wanted those students to understand
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How does caffeine keep...
to compete. Of course, not all of caffeine's effects are so helpful. It might make you feel better and more alert, but it can also raise your heart rate and blood pressure, cause increased urination or diarrhea,
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Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
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Martin Scorsese
American Director
If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.
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Jennifer Lopez
American Musician
I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
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Jessamyn West
American Author
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
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Emily Thornberry
British Politician
So how helpful has 'Help to Work' actually been? Not very.
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Gayle Rankin
Scottish Actress
I can swing widely in both directions of helpful or not.
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Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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Robert Baden-Powell
English Soldier
No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.
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Martin Scorsese
American Director
If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
I think that the churches do a better job in many respects than the government does in various kinds of things. Extending aid, the helpfulness, and so on, yes.
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Jennifer Lopez
American Musician
I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.
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Thich Nhat Hanh
Vietnamese Clergyman
Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.
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Billy Graham
American Clergyman
Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
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Jessamyn West
American Author
Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
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Emily Thornberry
British Politician
So how helpful has 'Help to Work' actually been? Not very.
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Gayle Rankin
Scottish Actress
I can swing widely in both directions of helpful or not.
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Jeanette Winterson
British Novelist
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
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