unhelpful
Word family
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++un·help·ful /ʌnˈhelpfəl/ adjective USELESSnot helping in a situation and sometimes making it worse 不予帮助的；没有帮助的，无用的 The authorities are being particularly unhelpful. 当局特别不合作。 —unhelpfully adverb —unhelpfulness noun [uncountable]Examples from the Corpus
unhelpful• The customs officials were impatient, rude, and unhelpful.• But a national debate on architecture at this level is as banal as it is unhelpful.• For anyone not already familiar with these works, the presentation is unhelpful.• None of this behaviour adopted by professionals is intended to be unhelpful.• The large number of parses produced are unnecessary and unhelpful in the recognition application.• Among the remaining patients, computed tomography was helpful in 19%, but unhelpful or wrong in 23%.• This is ultimately unhelpful to women.un·help·ful adjectiveChineseSyllable
worse and helping a making sometimes Corpus in situation it not
unhelpful
un‧help‧ful /ʌnˈhelpfəl/
adjective
The authorities are being particularly unhelpful.
—unhelpfully adverb
—unhelpfulness noun [uncountable]
un‧help‧ful /ʌnˈhelpfəl/
adjective Word Family: noun: help, helper, helpfulness ≠ unhelpfulness, helping, helplessness; adverb: helpfully ≠ unhelpfully, helplessly; adjective: helpful ≠ unhelpful, helpless; verb: help
not helping in a situation and sometimes making it worse: —unhelpfully adverb
—unhelpfulness noun [uncountable]