unhelpful

Meanings

• adjective

  Not providing assistance or making a situation worse.

  - "His unhelpful comments made the situation even more confusing."
  - "The unhelpful instructions led to a mistake in the experiment."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with unhelpful
unrelenting , unbending , unending

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Variants

List of all variants of unhelpful that leads to same result
unhelpful , unhelpfully , unhelpfulness , unhelpfulnesses

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

Derived from 'un-' meaning 'not' and 'helpful' meaning 'providing assistance or benefit'.

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Trivia

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1. The word 'unhelpful' contains all the letters in the English alphabet except for 'q' and 'x'.

2. In ancient Greece, an unhelpful person was often depicted as having the body of a donkey with the head of a human.

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Related Concepts

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1. useless: Both unhelpful and useless mean not providing any benefit, but unhelpful implies not providing assistance or making things worse.

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How to Memorize "unhelpful"

1. visualize
   

   - Visualize a person not providing any assistance or making a situation worse.

2. associate
   

   - Associate the word 'unhelpful' with a person who is not providing assistance or making things worse.

3. mnemonics
   

   - Use the mnemonic 'U-N-H-E-L-P-F-U-L' to remember that unhelpful means 'Not providing assistance or making things worse'.

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