Usually means: Not providing useful assistance or guidance.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. unhelpfully: Merriam-Webster
  2. unhelpfully: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unhelpfully: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unhelpfully: Vocabulary.com
  5. unhelpfully: Wordnik
  6. unhelpfully: Wiktionary
  7. unhelpfully: Dictionary.com
  8. unhelpfully: Rhymezone
  9. unhelpfully: FreeDictionary.org
  10. unhelpfully: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. unhelpfully: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unhelpfully)

▸ adverb:  In an unhelpful manner.

Similar:
unconstructively, unusefully, helpfully, unaccommodatingly, unsupportively, unhandily, unadvantageously, uncomplaisantly, unencouragingly, unimportunately, more...

Opposite:
helpfully, beneficially, constructively, supportively

Types:
uselessly, pointlessly, in vain, no avail, more...

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Similar:
unconstructively, unusefully, helpfully, unaccommodatingly, unsupportively, unhandily, unadvantageously, uncomplaisantly, unencouragingly, unimportunately, more...

Opposite:
helpfully, beneficially, constructively, supportively

Types:
uselessly, pointlessly, in vain, no avail, more...



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