Usually means: Not useful; lacking helpful contribution.
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  1. unhelpful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unhelpful: Merriam-Webster
  3. unhelpful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unhelpful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. unhelpful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Unhelpful, unhelpful: Wordnik
  7. unhelpful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. unhelpful: Wiktionary
  9. unhelpful: Dictionary.com
  10. unhelpful: Rhymezone
  11. unhelpful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. unhelpful: FreeDictionary.org
  13. unhelpful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. unhelpful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unhelpful: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Not providing help or assistance; not helpful.

Similar:
useless, unconstructive, uncooperative, unaccommodating, nonhelpful, unhelping, unassisting, unaiding, unobliging, unholpen, more...

Opposite:
helpful, useful, beneficial, valuable, advantageous

Phrases:
unhelpful bad counterproductive, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     olive drab,     muddy green, more...

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Similar:
useless, unconstructive, uncooperative, unaccommodating, nonhelpful, unhelping, unassisting, unaiding, unobliging, unholpen, more...

Opposite:
helpful, useful, beneficial, valuable, advantageous

Phrases:
unhelpful bad counterproductive, more...

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     dull brown,     olive drab,     muddy green, more...



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