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Synonyms

[1a] aid, assist, assistance, backing, boost, lift, support; also advancement, encouragement, forwarding, furtherance, furthering; benefaction, patronage, promotion, sponsorship; advice, care, counsel, guidance; attendance, attention, service; beneficence, charity, favor, kindness, philanthropy; relief, succor

Antonyms

hindrance

[1b] advantage, aid, benefit, boon; also lift; support, sustenance; blessing, godsend, windfall; recourse, resort, resource; asset

Antonyms

disadvantage, drawback, hindrance, impediment

[4] force, personnel, pool, staff—more at FORCE

help·er noun : one that helps

Synonyms

aid, apprentice, assistant, deputy, helpmate, mate, sidekick; also attendant, handmaiden, maid, maidservant, scullion, servant; auxiliary, subordinate, underling; employee, hand, help, hireling, laborer, worker

helper T cell noun : a T cell that participates in the immune response by recognizing foreign antigens and has a protein on its surface to which HIV attaches

help·ful adjective : of service or assistance

— help·ful·ly adverb

— help·ful·ness noun

Synonyms

advantageous, beneficial, favorable, profitable, salutary—more at BENEFICIAL

help·ing noun : a portion of food

help·less adjective 1 : lacking protection or support : DEFENSELESS

2 : marked by an inability to act or react

— help·less·ly adverb

— help·less·ness noun

Synonyms

[1] defenseless, exposed, susceptible, undefended, unguarded, unprotected, unresistant, vulnerable; also indefensible, untenable; uncovered, unsafe; overcome, preyed (on or upon); passive, resistless, unarmed; feeble, frail, weak; abandoned, marooned

Antonyms

guarded, invulnerable, protected, resistant, shielded

[2] impotent, powerless, weak—more at POWERLESS

help·mate noun 1 : one that helps : HELPER

2 : a female partner in a marriage : WIFE

Synonyms

[1] aid, apprentice, assistant, deputy, helper, mate, sidekick—more at HELPER

[2] lady, wife—more at WIFE

help·meet noun 1 : one that helps : HELPMATE

2 : a female partner in a marriage : WIFE

hel·ter–skel·ter adverb 1 : in undue haste or disorder

2 : in a haphazard manner

Synonyms

amok, berserk, frantically, harum-scarum, hectically, madly, pell-mell, wild, wildly; also confusedly, crazily, desperately, feverishly, uncontrollably; heedlessly, hotheadedly, recklessly, wantonly; chaotically, turbulently; aimlessly, haphazardly

helve noun : a handle of a tool or weapon

Hel·ve·tian adjective : SWISS

— Helvetian noun

1hem noun 1 : a border of an article (as of cloth) doubled back and stitched down

2 : RIM, MARGIN

2hem verb hemmed; hem·ming 1 : to make a hem in sewing; also : BORDER, EDGE

2 : to surround restrictively

Synonyms

cage, closet, coop, corral, encase, enclose, envelop, fence, hedge, house, immure, pen, wall—more at ENCLOSE

he–man noun : a strong virile man

he·ma·tite noun : a mineral that consists of an oxide of iron and that constitutes an important iron ore

he·ma·tol·o·gy noun : a branch of biology that deals with the blood and blood-forming organs

— he·ma·to·log·ic also he·ma·to·log·i·cal adjective

— he·ma·tol·o·gist noun

he·ma·to·ma noun, plural mas also -ma·ta : a usu. clotted mass of blood forming as a result of a broken blood vessel

heme noun : the deep red iron-containing part of hemoglobin

hemi·sphere noun 1 : one of the halves of the earth as divided by the equator into northern and southern parts or by a meridian into eastern and western parts

2 : either of two half spheres formed by a plane through the sphere's center

— hemi·spher·ic or hemi·spher·i·cal adjective

hem·line noun : the line formed by the lower edge of a garment

hem·lock noun 1 : any of several poisonous herbs related to the carrot

2 : an evergreen tree related to the pines; also : its soft light wood

he·mo·glo·bin noun : an iron-containing compound found in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues

he·mo·phil·ia noun : a hereditary