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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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List of paraphrases for "unhelpful":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#9462 | unnecessary | |
#10226 | useless | |
#17502 | sterile | |
#18270 | pointless | |
#24369 | unhelpful | |
#26975 | futile |
How to use unhelpful in a sentence?
Some of the material that's been put out - on preprint servers for example - clearly has been... unhelpful, whether it's fake news or misinformation or rumour-mongering, it's certainly contributed to fear and panic.
We find that a very unconstructive move... It's unhelpful to mutual understanding between China and United States. We hope United States will change such a negative mindset.
It would be very unhelpful to try to artificially push for immediate results in every area.
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.
Our company wants to be on the right side of history and we are doing everything that is needed, but we cannot do it alone and as a matter of fact even the entire energy industry cannot do it on its own, if we cannot do it together with customers, regulators, policymakers, it's just not going to happen. That's why I think we have to all try to step up, rather than accusing, polarizing and using very unhelpful stances.
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