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help·ful

 (hĕlp′fəl)
adj.
Providing assistance; useful.

help′ful·ly adv.
help′ful·ness n.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.helpfully - in a helpful manner; "the subtitles are helpfully conveyed"
unhelpfully - in an unhelpful manner; "he stood by unhelpfully while the house burned down"
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Translations
بِمُساعَدَه
užitečně
hjælpsomt
gagnlega
yararlı bir şekilde

helpfully

[ˈhelpfəlɪ] ADV [say, suggest, offer] → amablemente
they had helpfully sent us a mapamablemente, nos habían mandado un mapa
"it might be here," she said helpfully-puede que esté aquí -dijo para ayudar
the chairs were not very helpfully arrangedlas sillas no estaban colocadas de una forma muy conveniente
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

helpfully

[ˈhɛlpfʊli] adv [say, suggest] → aimablement; [give] → aimablement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

helpfully

adv (= willing to help)hilfsbereit; (= giving help)hilfreich; (= thoughtfully) provide, includeliebenswürdigerweise; he helpfully showed us the best beacher war so hilfsbereit, uns den besten Strand zu zeigen
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

helpfully

[ˈhɛlpfəlɪ] advgentilmente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

help

(help) verb
1. to do something with or for someone that he cannot do alone, or that he will find useful. Will you help me with this translation?; Will you please help me (to) translate this poem?; Can I help?; He fell down and I helped him up.
2. to play a part in something; to improve or advance. Bright posters will help to attract the public to the exhibition; Good exam results will help his chances of a job.
3. to make less bad. An aspirin will help your headache.
4. to serve (a person) in a shop. Can I help you, sir?
5. (with can(not), ~could (not)) to be able not to do something or to prevent something. He looked so funny that I couldn't help laughing; Can I help it if it rains?
noun
1. the act of helping, or the result of this. Can you give me some help?; Your digging the garden was a big help; Can I be of help to you?
2. someone or something that is useful. You're a great help to me.
3. a servant, farmworker etc. She has hired a new help.
4. (usually with no) a way of preventing something. Even if you don't want to do it, the decision has been made – there's no help for it now.
ˈhelper noun
We need several helpers for this job.
ˈhelpful adjective
a very helpful boy; You may find this book helpful.
ˈhelpfully adverb
ˈhelpfulness noun
ˈhelping noun
the amount of food one has on one's plate. a large helping of pudding.
ˈhelpless adjective
needing the help of other people; unable to do anything for oneself. A baby is almost completely helpless.
ˈhelplessly adverb
ˈhelplessness noun
help oneself
1. (with to) to give oneself or take (food etc). Help yourself to another piece of cake; `Can I have a pencil?' `Certainly – help yourself; He helped himself to (= stole) my jewellery.
2. (with cannot, ~could not) to be able to stop (oneself). I burst out laughing when he told me – I just couldn't help myself.
help out
to help (a person), usually for a short time because the person is in some difficulty. I help out in the shop from time to time; Could you help me out by looking after the baby?
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References in classic literature ?
I was right; but she had stood by me most helpfully in the castle, and had mightily supported and reinforced me with gigantic foolishnesses which were worth more for the occasion than wisdoms double their size; so I thought she had earned a right to work her mill for a while, if she wanted to, and I felt not a pang when she started it up:
But one mind still held possession of its resources -- but one guiding spirit now moved helpfully in the house of mourning.
The churches re-echoed the national enthusiasm in graver key and slower measure, and the aerial and naval preparations on the East River were greatly incommoded by the multitude of excursion steamers which thronged, helpfully cheering, about them.
Overall, however, the arrangements are very good, and Sabol has helpfully provided editorial "divisions" for use in repeated passages, alternative versions of some of the pieces, and keyboard reductions of the consort accompaniments to the songs for use in rehearsal.
And again when Mark's mother helpfully suggested she comes to 'help out.' Am I that much of a f***wit?
His 120 pages of endnotes furnish ample extracts from the sources and precise citations to the secondary literature, which is also helpfully surveyed in a short bibliographical essay.
My six-year-old son Jason said helpfully: "If you don't lose weight, mum, you'll be great at climbing trees."
Barstow also considers witch-hunts as part of economic history, helpfully juxtaposing scholarship on women and work with economic analyses of witchcraft.
Perhaps most helpfully, it shows with new clarity and detail both the richness of Bucer's understanding of "discipline" (of which excommunication is only one lesser part), and the way this teaching encompasses and makes coherent sense of various strands of the reformer's work which have often been piled up in layers rather than woven together.
Elaborating the literary ancestry of "An Allusion to Horace," for example, she helpfully clarifies the particular standards by which Rochester judged poetry as well as his more evident ad hominem satiric techniques against poets and playwrights whom he disliked.
Helpfully, if he wants any more, Lily Rose Cooper (nee Allen) has volunteered her dairy services, writing on Twitter: "I'm lactating, how much you offering?" Amazing.
Now we have facing page translations of the entire corpus, along with illuminating introductions and helpfully extensive commentary that focuses on allusions, sources, textual difficulties, and dramaturgy but not literary interpretation.