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helpful

adj
/ˈhɛlp.fl̩/

Etymology

From Middle English helpful; equivalent to help + -ful.

  1. inherited from helpful

Definitions

  1. Furnishing help

    Furnishing help; giving aid; useful.

    • a helpful clue
    • a helpful person
    • […]inſtructe the yonge Chyrurgiane, becauſe that vvithout making any great delaye, he might be adiuvable & helpefull to the patient vvith theſe remedyes vvhich conſequently follovve.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at helpful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01helpful02useful03practical04skills05skill06discrimination07partiality08favor

A definitional loop anchored at helpful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at helpful

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA