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unhelpfully

unhelpfully adverb: in an unhelpful manner.

Adverb

unhelpfully (comparative more unhelpfully, superlative most unhelpfully)

  1. In an unhelpful manner.
    • Evangelical figures and groups who 'converted' to Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy, in search of a return to the sources and to some 'Golden Era' of church history – here he specifically mentions Thomas Howard and Peter Gilquist, or those who uncritically and thus unhelpfully appropriated...2016, TF Torrance, The Trinitarian faith: The evangelical theology of the ancient Catholic Church
    Antonyms:
    helpfully

Antonyms of unhelpfully

Forms of unhelpfully

comparativemore unhelpfully
superlativemost unhelpfully

Origin of unhelpfully

From un- + helpful + -ly.

Questions about unhelpfully

What does unhelpfully mean?
Unhelpfully means in an unhelpful manner.
What part of speech is unhelpfully?
Unhelpfully is an adverb.

Words near unhelpfully in the dictionary

  1. unhelpability
  2. unhelpable
  3. unhelpableness
  4. unhelped
  5. unhelpful
  6. unhelpfully
  7. unhelpfulness
  8. unhelpfulnesses
  9. unhelping
  10. unhelps
  11. unhelpt

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