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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unhelpful
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 at this level is as banal as it is unhelpful.
▪ For anyone not already familiar with these works, the presentation is unhelpful.
▪ None of this behaviour adopted by professionals is intended to be unhelpful.
▪ The large number of parses produced are unnecessary and unhelpful in the recognition application.
▪ This is ultimately unhelpful to women.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unhelpful

1590s, from un- (1) "not" + helpful. Related: Unhelpfully; unhelpfulness.

Wiktionary
unhelpful

a. Not providing help or assistance; not helpful.

WordNet
unhelpful

  1. adj. providing no assistance [ant: helpful]

  2. 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.