unhelpful
/ʌnˈhɛlpfəl/
unhelpful adjective: not providing help or assistance; not helpful.
Adjective
unhelpful (comparative more unhelpful, superlative most unhelpful)
- Not providing help or assistance; not helpful.
- Even if you are genuinely a victim, having a victim mentality is unhelpful because it is disempowering. ― Ned Kelly, "NFL Players Are Setting A Bad Example By Teaching Black People To Encourage Victimhood", 8th of October 2017
- "Did you know, beloved, at the last, in that intolerable heat, in that moment of supreme anguish, that he is unlistening, unhelpful as the stars, that you cried not to him?"1904, William Henry Hudson, Green Mansions, chapter XX
unhelpful meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
unhelpful in Hindi
- असहयोगी
unhelpful in Urdu
- غیر مددگار, بے مددگار
unhelpful in Bengali
- সাহায্যহীন
unhelpful in Telugu
- సహాయపడనిది, సహాయం చేయనిది
More languagesFewer languages
- unhelpful in Malayalam
- സഹായമില്ലാത്തവർ, സഹായമില്ലാത്തവൻ
- unhelpful in Kannada
- ಅಸಹಾಯಕ, ಸಹಾಯಕ್ಕೆ ಬಾರದ, ನೆರವಾಗದ
- unhelpful in Punjabi
- ਗ਼ੈਰ-ਮਦਦਗਾਰ
- unhelpful in Gujarati
- બિનસહાયક
Forms of unhelpful
| comparative | more unhelpful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unhelpful |
Origin of unhelpful
From un- + helpful.
Words formed from unhelpful
Questions about unhelpful
- What does unhelpful mean?
- Unhelpful means not providing help or assistance; not helpful.
- What is unhelpful in Hindi?
- Unhelpful in Hindi is असहयोगी. See Unhelpful meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is unhelpful?
- Unhelpful is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unhelpful?
- Unhelpful is pronounced /ʌnˈhɛlpfəl/.
Words near unhelpful in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhelpful (page history and authors); unhelpful (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unhelpful (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unhelpful (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unhelpful (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unhelpful (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unhelpful (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unhelpful (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unhelpful (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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