HELPFUL Antonyms

• providing no assistance

• tending to hinder the achievement of a goal

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

• involving or creating circumstances detrimental to success or effectiveness

• depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action

• expressing disapproval in order to dissuade

• characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

• causing or capable of causing harm

• preventing movement

• causing hurt

• harmful to living things

• preventing movement

• lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others

• without proper consideration or reflection

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• preventing movement

• unwilling to cooperate

• intentionally unaccommodating

• not producing or capable of producing

• not producing desired results

• not furnishing support or assistance

• having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• block passage through

• shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight