Synonyms for unhelpful
un·help·ful

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1. unhelpfuladjective

   providing no assistance

   Antonyms:
   steadying, helpful, reformative, accommodating, subservient, instrumental, assistive, reformatory, stabilising, laboursaving, ministrant, face-saving, right-hand, stabilizing, facilitative, implemental, adjuvant, laborsaving, facilitatory

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1. List of paraphrases for "unhelpful":

   useless, pointless, futile, unnecessary, sterile

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1. Carter Harrison:

   While not a direct competitor in every respect, the growth of( Amazon's) successful Prime service has locked more customers into using its services and sites in a way that is unhelpful to eBay.

2. Gregory Poling:

   It lets The US very clearly call out China's activities as illegal, not just destabilizing or unhelpful, but to say this is illegal, that helps partners like Vietnam and the Philippines, and it's going to put pressure on other countries -- the Europeans, for instance -- to get off the fence and say something themselves.

3. Simon Coveney:

   The statements of the British prime minister yesterday in the House of Commons were very unhelpful to this process, he seems to have made a deliberate decision to set Britain on a collision course with the European Union and with Ireland in relation to the Brexit negotiations.

4. House SpeakerPaul Ryan:

   The first thing that came to my mind was: Very unfortunate, very unhelpful. But you know what I thought of right away? Ithought of my own family, my family, like a whole lot of people, came from Ireland on what they called the coffin ships then. Came here and worked the railroads. The Irish were really looked down upon back in those days. I hear all these stories from my relatives about ‘Irish need not apply.’.

5. Jose Miguel Insulza:

   It would be very unhelpful to try to artificially push for immediate results in every area.