Usually means: Not useful; lacking helpful contribution.
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  1. unhelpful: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. unhelpful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unhelpful: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. Unhelpful, unhelpful: Wordnik
  6. unhelpful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unhelpful: Wiktionary
  8. unhelpful: Dictionary.com
  9. unhelpful: Rhymezone
  10. unhelpful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. unhelpful: Free Dictionary
  12. unhelpful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. unhelpful: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  14. unhelpful: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  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...

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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...



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