of assistance

ADJECTIVE

useful

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advantageous appropriate convenient effective favorable fruitful good handy helpful practical pragmatic profitable proper suitable

STRONG

utile

WEAK

all-purpose applied brave commodious fit functional instrumental meet of service of use practicable propitious purposive salutary serviceable subsidiary suited toward

Antonyms

STRONGEST

awkward bad disadvantageous disagreeable harmful hurtful impotent improper inappropriate incapable inconvenient injurious misbehaving unacceptable unfitting unhandy unhelpful unproductive unskilled unsuitable unsuited useless worthless

WEAK

unusable unvaluable

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Back in Washington, the State Department set up a task force to coordinate more than $150 million of assistance for Venezuela, with the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

There was also a record number of tribunals in 2024/25, where parents disagreed with a refusal to offer support, or were challenging the level of assistance offered.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

General warrants and writs of assistance enraged the colonies precisely because they allowed British officials to rummage through homes and businesses without individualized suspicion.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

The reality is that most will require at least some level of assistance.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

"Ahoy down there! Parties in need of assistance?"

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman

of assistance

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