单词 | unhelpful |
释义 | unhelpful (once / 30229 pages) adj WORD FAMILY unhelpful: unhelpfully, unhelpfulness+/help: helped, helper, helpful, helping, helpless, helps, self-help/helper: helpers/helpful: helpfulest, helpfully, helpfulness, unhelpful/helping: helpings/helpless: helplesser, helplessest, helplessly, helplessness USAGE EXAMPLESThe continued building of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank is indeed unhelpful, and the decision to abstain on a U.N. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Putin opposed Bush in Iraq and was unhelpful with Iran. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Earlier China's Chinese defence ministry criticised the US response, calling it "inappropriate and unhelpful". BBC(Dec 17, 2016) adj providing no assistance Syn|Ant uncooperative unwilling to cooperate discouragingdepriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action unaccommodatingoffering no assistance unconstructivenot constructive helpful providing assistance or serving a useful function accommodating, accommodativehelpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation cooperativedone with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit encouraginggiving courage or confidence or hope accommodatingobliging; willing to do favors adjuvantenhancing the action of a medical treatment assistivegiving assistance face-savingmaintaining dignity or prestige facilitativefreeing from difficulty or impediment facilitatoryinducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity implemental, instrumental, subservientserving or acting as a means or aid laborsaving, laboursavingdesigned to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor ministrantgiving practical help to reformative, reformatorytending to reform right-handmost helpful and reliable stabilising, stabilizingcausing to become stable steadyingcausing to become steady useful, utilebeing of use or service |
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