helping
noun
help·ing ˈhel-piŋ 
1
: a portion of food : serving
2
: dose sense 3
large helpings of reportage and interviews
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Example Sentences
He had two helpings of carrots. Can I give you a second helping?
Recent Examples on the Web The jerk chicken gets an extra helping of a hot Jamaican pepper, which the Keelings import from the Caribbean. Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022 Everybody was reeling from Vietnam and the usual extra helping of corruption with politics. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2022 This summer, traveling by air comes with more than the usual helping of grief. Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 26 July 2022 For a second helping, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is also on Netflix. Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022 The green apples typical of this distillery are there alongside a healthy helping of grapes. Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Michigan State basketball will be serving a double helping on Thanksgiving Night. Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2022 For motorists, every visit to the gas pump brings a fresh helping of pain. Ronald D. White, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022 For motorists, every visit to the gas pump brings a fresh helping of pain. Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022 See More
Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022 Everybody was reeling from Vietnam and the usual extra helping of corruption with politics. Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2022 This summer, traveling by air comes with more than the usual helping of grief. Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 26 July 2022 For a second helping, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 is also on Netflix. Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022 The green apples typical of this distillery are there alongside a healthy helping of grapes. Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes, 28 June 2022 Michigan State basketball will be serving a double helping on Thanksgiving Night. Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 25 July 2022 For motorists, every visit to the gas pump brings a fresh helping of pain. Ronald D. White, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2022 For motorists, every visit to the gas pump brings a fresh helping of pain. Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1883, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Phrases Containing helping
Kids Definition
helping
noun
help·ing ˈhel-piŋ
: a serving of food
helping 1 of 2
adjective
1
as in aiding
Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- aiding
- relieving
- easing
- computerized
- motorized
- automated
- nonmanual
- laborsaving
- time-saving
- mechanical
- self-regulating
- semiautomatic
- self-operating
- self-acting
- automatic
- robotic
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- nonautomatic
- nonautomated
2
as in assisting
Synonyms & Similar Words
- assisting
- supportive
- assistant
- complementary
- tributary
- contributory
- further
- adjuvant
- subordinate
- another
- additional
- added
- subsidiary
- surplus
- excess
- superfluous
- backup
- auxiliary
- secondary
- accessory
- peripheral
- makeshift
- dispensable
- nonessential
- unessential
- subservient
- substitute
- appurtenant
- accessorial
- supplementary
- supplemental
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- main
- principal
- chief
- necessary
- basic
- prime
- fundamental
- needed
- primary
- essential
- vital
- integral
- required
- imperative
- needful
- requisite
- indispensable
- all-important
helping
2 of 2verb
1
as in supporting
to provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end offered to help her widowed father when he moved into an apartment Synonyms & Similar Words
- assisting
- aiding
- supporting
- reinforcing
- encouraging
- saving
- facilitating
- promoting
- abetting
- guiding
- backing
- bolstering
- backstopping
- sponsoring
- furthering
- serving
- endorsing
- rescuing
- fostering
- benefiting
- comforting
- attending
- launching
- championing
- bearing a hand
- sustaining
- forwarding
- advising
- advancing
- propping (up)
- standing one in good stead
- patronizing
- mentoring
- boosting
- easing
- nurturing
- succoring
- benefitting
- buttressing
- profiting
- counseling
- indorsing
- heartening
- obliging
- reenforcing
- delivering
- emboldening
- bailing out
- favoring
- counselling
- ministering (to)
- caring (for)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hindering
- impeding
- hampering
- interfering
- blocking
- inhibiting
- failing
- restraining
- obstructing
- thwarting
- opposing
- constraining
- sabotaging
- strangling
- holding back
- handicapping
- barring
- frustrating
- discouraging
- disappointing
- balking
- deserting
- hurting
- baffling
- inconveniencing
- harming
- retarding
- letting down
- foiling
- repressing
- damaging
- disheartening
- stunting
- stifling
- injuring
- straitening
2
as in alleviating
to make more bearable or less severe the new ointment didn't help Josh's sunburn one bit Synonyms & Similar Words
- alleviating
- relieving
- mitigating
- soothing
- easing
- improving
- softening
- healing
- enhancing
- curing
- allaying
- mollifying
- assuaging
- remedying
- fixing
- moderating
- correcting
- repairing
- palliating
- refining
- rectifying
- lightening
- tempering
- bettering
- enriching
- reforming
- perfecting
- amending
- ameliorating
- abating
- meliorating
- mending
- emending
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hurting
- harming
- impairing
- aggravating
- injuring
- exacerbating
- intensifying
- sharpening
- heightening
3
as in preventing
to keep from happening by taking action in advance they couldn't help the way things turned out Synonyms & Similar Words
- preventing
- averting
- providing
- avoiding
- precluding
- forestalling
- obviating
- escaping
- anticipating
- saving
- hindering
- deterring
- thwarting
- heading off
- staving off
- hampering
- impeding
- neutralizing
- evading
- nullifying
- retarding
- shaking
- stopping
- deflecting
- counteracting
- foiling
- prohibiting
- forbidding
- stalling
- eluding
- frustrating
- blocking
- negating
- stopping
- offsetting
- balking
- inhibiting
- checking
- shunning
- baffling
- eschewing
- circumventing
- checkmating
- counterbalancing
- halting
- dodging
- arresting
- barring
- interfering (with)
- ducking
- shirking
- fending (off)
- warding (off)
- making up (for)
- compensating (for)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- assisting
- aiding
- facilitating
- abetting
- encouraging
- promoting
- furthering
- fostering
- advancing
- easing
- smoothing
- letting
- allowing
- cultivating
- leaving
- nurturing
- permitting
- forwarding
- unclogging
4
as in benefiting
to provide with something useful or desirable being independently wealthy certainly helped him during his years as a struggling young artist Synonyms & Similar Words
- benefiting
- benefitting
- assisting
- aiding
- profiting
- availing
- serving
- improving
- advantaging
- succeeding
- bettering
- satisfying
- pleasing
- blessing
- delighting
- gratifying
- contenting
- gladdening
- working (for)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hindering
- impeding
- hurting
- damaging
- impairing
- harming
- injuring
- distressing
- upsetting
- afflicting
5
as in improving
to make better some minor revisions would help this essay immensely Synonyms & Similar Words
- improving
- enhancing
- refining
- bettering
- enriching
- perfecting
- ameliorating
- remedying
- upgrading
- remediating
- amending
- meliorating
- reinforcing
- strengthening
- correcting
- rehabilitating
- rectifying
- reforming
- boosting
- intensifying
- refurbishing
- revising
- editing
- reworking
- revamping
- fortifying
- honing
- fine-tuning
- fining
- emending
- polishing
- rehabbing
- redrafting
- reenforcing
- retouching
- touching up
- beefing (up)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- hurting
- harming
- worsening
- impairing
- spoiling
- damaging
- reducing
- injuring
- tarnishing
- vitiating
- diminishing
- lowering
- blighting
- disfiguring
- marring
- defacing
- lessening
- endamaging
- flawing
- blemishing