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unhelpful
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The customs officials were impatient, rude, and unhelpful . EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Among the remaining patients, computed tomography was helpful in 19%, but unhelpful or wrong in 23%. ▪ But a national debate on architecture ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Not providing help or assistance; not helpful.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from un- (1) "not" + helpful . Related: Unhelpfully ; unhelpfulness .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. providing no assistance [ant: helpful ] showing no willingness to cooperate; "an unhelpful attitude"
Usage examples of unhelpful.
He tried information for her home phone, but the machine at the Mesquita residence was just as unhelpful.
Udara itself had had a Barents Society Resident for some years, one Lorum van Vechten, of whom Gabrel knew little except that the man had been completely unhelpful as to local information about the Independent Tribal Territories of the High Jagirs.
The Edinburgh Room directed him to the Scottish Library downstairs, and the Scottish Library's microfiches were every bit as unhelpful as the high-tech facilities across the way.
His butt sticking out of the front end of her Volvo was particularly unhelpful.
My mind was racing so fast and trying to tie so many different strings together that it was unhelpful and dangerous.
What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise—does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.
What He wants of the layman in church is an attitude which may, indeed, be critical in the sense of rejecting what is false or unhelpful, but which is wholly uncritical in the sense that it does not appraise÷does not waste time in thinking about what it rejects, but lays itself open in uncommenting, humble receptivity to any nourishment that is going.