1. Providing assistance or serving a useful function
   "he's both kind and helpful"

See also: accommodating, adjuvant, assistive, attending, cooperative, encouraging, face-saving, facilitative, facilitatory, implemental, instrumental, laborsaving [US], labor-saving [US], laboursaving [Brit, Cdn], labour-saving [Brit, Cdn], ministrant, obliging, reformative, reformatory, right-hand, stabilising [Brit], stabilizing, steadying, subservient, useful, utile

Antonym: unhelpful

Encyclopedia: Helpful