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Antonyms for help
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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 1 vote

  1. help

    Help expresses greater dependence and deeper need than aid. In extremity we say "God help me!" rather than "God aid me!" In time of danger we cry "help! help!" rather than "aid! aid!" To aid is to second another's own exertions. We can speak of helping the helpless, but not of aiding them. Help includes aid, but aid may fall short of the meaning of help. In law to aid or abet makes one a principal. (Compare synonyms for ACCESSORY.) To cooperate is to aid as an equal; to assist implies a subordinate and secondary relation. One assists a fallen friend to rise; he cooperates with him in helping others. Encourage refers to mental aid, as uphold now usually does; succor and support, oftenest to material assistance. We encourage the timid or despondent, succor the endangered, support the weak, uphold those who else might be shaken or cast down. Compare ABET; PROMOTE.

    Antonyms:
    counteract, discourage, oppose, resist, thwart, withstand

    Synonyms:
    abet, aid, assist, befriend, cooperate, encourage, foster, second, stand by, succor, support, sustain, uphold

    Preposition:
    Help in an enterprise with money; help to success; against the enemy.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 2 votes

  1. helpverb

    Antonyms:
    oppose, obstruct, aggravate, incur

    Synonyms:
    aid, succor, remedy, prevent, avoid, assist, promote, cooperate, relieve, second

Princeton's WordNet3.3 / 4 votes

  1. aid, assist, assistance, helpnoun

    the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

    "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading"

    Synonyms:
    service, supporter, assistance, attention, financial aid, care, assist, helper, economic aid, avail, assistant, tending, aid

  2. assistant, helper, help, supporternoun

    a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

    "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

    Synonyms:
    friend, garter, assist, aid, supporter, patron, booster, avail, champion, assistance, suspensor, benefactor, jock, helper, jockstrap, admirer, assistant, service, sponsor, athletic supporter, protagonist

  3. aid, assistance, helpnoun

    a resource

    "visual aids in teaching"

    Synonyms:
    service, supporter, assistance, attention, financial aid, care, assist, helper, economic aid, avail, assistant, tending, aid

  4. avail, help, serviceverb

    a means of serving

    "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"

    Synonyms:
    serve, servicing, religious service, assist, serving, supporter, aid, overhaul, avail, assistance, inspection and repair, armed service, divine service, helper, table service, service, service of process, assistant, military service

  5. help, assist, aidverb

    give help or assistance; be of service

    "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house"

    Synonyms:
    attend to, help oneself, serve, assist, attend, wait on, facilitate, avail, aid

  6. help, aidverb

    improve the condition of

    "These pills will help the patient"

    Synonyms:
    help oneself, aid, avail, assist, serve, facilitate

  7. help, facilitateverb

    be of use

    "This will help to prevent accidents"

    Synonyms:
    aid, alleviate, help oneself, ease, serve, assist, facilitate, avail

  8. help oneself, helpverb

    abstain from doing; always used with a negative

    "I can't help myself--I have to smoke"; "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"

    Synonyms:
    help oneself, aid, avail, assist, serve, facilitate

  9. serve, helpverb

    help to some food; help with food or drink

    "I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

    Synonyms:
    serve, avail, process, help oneself, dish up, answer, dish out, function, attend to, suffice, attend, service, aid, assist, serve up, facilitate, wait on, serve well, swear out, dish, do

  10. helpverb

    contribute to the furtherance of

    "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"

    Synonyms:
    help oneself, aid, avail, assist, serve, facilitate

  11. avail, helpverb

    take or use

    "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"

    Synonyms:
    help oneself, aid, avail, assist, serve, facilitate

  12. helpverb

    improve; change for the better

    "New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"

    Synonyms:
    help oneself, aid, avail, assist, serve, facilitate

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. deceive

    give assistance

    Submitted by anonymous on November 19, 2019  
  2. pummel

    pummel is to hurt some one.

    i’m gonna pummel you/i’m going to hurt you. i’m going to help you.

    Submitted by 24tfreitas on October 2, 2019  

How to use help in a sentence?

  1. Ed Marta:

    Before 2012, we could not talk, we could not sit at the same table. We were enemies fighting each other, killing each other, now, we're able to cooperate and coordinate our work, with one single objective: to help people.

  2. Paul Archuleta/Getty Images:

    When you grow up with somebody in that particular way, at that particular time in your life, you’re bonded together. You can’t help but want to see the person succeed, you can’t help but want to see them get the help that they need or the support that they need or whatever it is that they need.

  3. Dalia Marx:

    The liberal streams (of Judaism) acknowledge the fact that maybe some people are born in the wrong skin, and they have the right and maybe the duty to search for their own identity, then the Jewish religion and Jewish leaders have to help them find their way into this new reality that they created for themselves.

  4. Alabama Senate:

    Raising the debt ceiling doesn't help that issue. I think holding fast on cutting costs, cutting programs that are not value added that gets us to a balanced budget is absolutely something that is in the hands of Congress, and I would fight to do that.

  5. Karim Palant:

    No other channel for political advertising is as transparent and offers the tools that we do, we have tripled the size of the team working to detect and protect users from bad content to 30,000 people and invested heavily in machine learning, artificial intelligence and computer vision technology to help prevent this type of abuse.

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#12242oppose
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#19121withstand
#20138discourage
#36264thwart
#36830counteract
#39730obstruct
#55038aggravate

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