| helpful | | |
| adj. | 1. helpful | providing assistance or serving a useful function. |
| ~ accommodating, accommodative | helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation.; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating" |
| ~ cooperative | done with or working with others for a common purpose or benefit.; "a cooperative effort" |
| ~ encouraging | giving courage or confidence or hope.; "encouraging advances in medical research" |
| ~ accommodating | obliging; willing to do favors.; "made a special effort to be accommodating" |
| ~ adjuvant | enhancing the action of a medical treatment.; "the adjuvant action of certain bacteria" |
| ~ assistive | giving assistance. |
| ~ face-saving | maintaining dignity or prestige.; "a face-saving compromise" |
| ~ facilitative | freeing from difficulty or impediment.; "facilitative changes in the economic structure" |
| ~ facilitatory | inducing or aiding in facilitating neural activity. |
| ~ implemental, instrumental, subservient | serving or acting as a means or aid.; "instrumental in solving the crime" |
| ~ laborsaving, laboursaving | designed to replace or conserve human and especially manual labor.; "laborsaving devices like washing machines" |
| ~ ministrant | giving practical help to.; "a ministering angel"; "the angels ministrant sang"; "the attending physician" |
| ~ reformative, reformatory | tending to reform.; "reformative and rehabilitative agencies"; "reformatory punishment" |
| ~ right-hand | most helpful and reliable.; "my right-hand man" |
| ~ stabilising, stabilizing | causing to become stable.; "the family is one of the great stabilizing elements in society" |
| ~ steadying | causing to become steady.; "had a steadying effect on her nerves" |
| ~ useful, utile | being of use or service.; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society" |
| auxiliary | | |
| n. (person) | 1. aide, auxiliary | someone who acts as assistant. |
| ~ assistant, helper, help, supporter | a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work" |
| ~ nurse's aide, nursing aide | someone who assists a nurse in tasks that require little formal training. |
| adj. | 2. auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary | functioning in a supporting capacity.; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" |
| ~ secondary | being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate.; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams" |
| adj. | 3. accessory, adjunct, adjuvant, ancillary, appurtenant, auxiliary | furnishing added support.; "an ancillary pump"; "an adjuvant discipline to forms of mysticism"; "The mind and emotions are auxiliary to each other" |
| ~ supportive | furnishing support or assistance.; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer" |
| bunch | | |
| n. (group) | 1. bunch, clump, cluster, clustering | a grouping of a number of similar things.; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" |
| ~ agglomeration | a jumbled collection or mass. |
| ~ knot | a tight cluster of people or things.; "a small knot of women listened to his sermon"; "the bird had a knot of feathers forming a crest" |
| ~ swad | a bunch.; "a thick swad of plants" |
| ~ tuft, tussock | a bunch of hair or feathers or growing grass. |
| ~ northern cross | a cluster of 5 bright stars forming a cross in the constellation Cygnus. |
| ~ omega centauri | a global cluster in the constellation Centaurus. |
| ~ pleiades | a star cluster in the constellation Taurus. |
| n. (group) | 2. bunch, crew, crowd, gang | an informal body of friends.; "he still hangs out with the same crowd" |
| ~ assemblage, gathering | a group of persons together in one place. |
| n. (group) | 3. bunch, caboodle, lot | any collection in its entirety.; "she bought the whole caboodle" |
| ~ aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage | several things grouped together or considered as a whole. |
| v. (motion) | 4. bunch, bunch together, bunch up | form into a bunch.; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" |
| ~ cluster, clump, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| v. (contact) | 5. bunch, bunch up, bundle, clump, cluster | gather or cause to gather into a cluster.; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" |
| ~ form | assume a form or shape.; "the water formed little beads" |
| ~ agglomerate | form into one cluster. |
| cluster | | |
| v. (motion) | 1. clump, cluster, constellate, flock | come together as in a cluster or flock.; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" |
| ~ huddle, huddle together | crowd or draw together.; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" |
| ~ bunch, bunch together, bunch up | form into a bunch.; "The frightened children bunched together in the corner of the classroom" |
| ~ foregather, forgather, assemble, gather, meet | collect in one place.; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" |
| cooperate | | |
| v. (social) | 1. collaborate, cooperate, get together, join forces | work together on a common enterprise of project.; "The soprano and the pianist did not get together very well"; "We joined forces with another research group" |
| ~ work | exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity.; "I will work hard to improve my grades"; "she worked hard for better living conditions for the poor" |
| ~ collaborate | cooperate as a traitor.; "he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris" |
| ~ collaborate | cooperate as a traitor.; "he collaborated with the Nazis when they occupied Paris" |
| ~ go along, play along | cooperate or pretend to cooperate.; "He decided to play along with the burglars for the moment" |
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