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Synonyms for unhelpful
un·help·ful
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Princeton's WordNet
unhelpfuladjective
providing no assistance
Antonyms:
steadying, helpful, reformative, accommodating, subservient, instrumental, assistive, reformatory, stabilising, laboursaving, ministrant, face-saving, right-hand, stabilizing, facilitative, implemental, adjuvant, laborsaving, facilitatory
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#9462 | unnecessary | |
#10226 | useless | |
#17502 | sterile | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#24369 | unhelpful | |
#26975 | futile |
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The main obstacles are somewhat obvious, challenging and underdeveloped supply chains, weak logistics networks, expensive and inconsistent power, potentially sensitive local partnerships, awkward or unhelpful regulatory environment.
Many states are using numbers of diagnostic tests per capita and the proportion of positive test results as key metrics for reopening decisions, so adding a whole bunch of other tests that do not measure the present state of the pandemic to the mix is unhelpful and creates confusion, fortunately, most, though not all, states are reporting The Results separately, which is the data that should be used when making decisions about reopening.
The fact that this is being discussed as a potential sanction is not entirely unhelpful, it's a very, very serious sanction because it tends to be a pretty blunt instrument. Maybe that's required. I'm not sure. It's never been done before.
Mike PenceVice's the most uniquely connected to Trump of anyone in the field, in ways both helpful and unhelpful, nobody would be more affected by a Donald Trump comment than Mike PenceVice, and nobody more vulnerable to a Donald Trump run.
It lets The US very clearly call out China's activities as illegal, not just destabilizing or unhelpful, but to say this is illegal, that helps partners like Vietnam and the Philippines, and it's going to put pressure on other countries -- the Europeans, for instance -- to get off the fence and say something themselves.
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