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Nouns (16)

n. instruction offered by a program about how to use the software application or one of its features

n. a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household

n. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading"

service, help, avail

n. a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"

aid, assistance, help

n. a resource; "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas"

help, wizard, wizzard

n. an interactive help utility guiding the user through a difficult task

Verbs (14)

aid, help, improve the condition of, provide help to

v. improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient"

serve, help, help to some food, provide with food or drink

v. help to some food; help with food or drink; "I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

assist, aid, help

v. give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house"

help, facilitate, be of use

v. be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents"

Adverbs (0)

Adjectives (6)

domestic

adj. produced in a particular country; "domestic wine"; "domestic oil"

domestic

adj. of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; "domestic issues such as tax rate and highway construction"

domestic

adj. of or involving the home or family; "domestic worries"; "domestic happiness"; "they share the domestic chores"; "everything sounded very peaceful and domestic"; "an author of blood-and-thunder novels yet quite domestic in his taste"

domestic

adj. of or relating to the home; "domestic servant"; "domestic science"

domestic, domesticated

adj. converted or adapted to domestic use; "domestic animals"; "domesticated plants like maize"

Fuzzynyms (109)

attendant

n. a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees"

attendant

n. someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

man, gentleman, valet, gentleman's gentleman, valet de chambre

n. a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man"

dealings, relations

n. mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

return, take, yield, issue, bottom line, payoff, proceeds, takings

n. the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property; "the average return was about 5%"

posterity, descendants

n. all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity"

family, family unit

n. primary social group; parents and children; "he wanted to have a good job before starting a family"

brood

n. the young of an animal cared for at one time

offspring, progeny

n. the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

kin, family, kinsperson

n. a person having kinship with another or others; "he's kin"; "he's family"

place, home

n. where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?"

house, family, household, menage, ménage

n. a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home"

orderly

n. a soldier who serves as an attendant to a superior officer; "the orderly laid out the general's uniform"

consolation, comfort, solace

n. the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her"

welfare, social welfare

n. governmental provision of economic assistance to persons in need

alms, alms-giving

n. making voluntary contributions to aid the poor

part, contribution, share

n. any one of a number of individual efforts in a common endeavor; "I am proud of my contribution to the team's success"; "they all did their share of the work"

subsidy

n. a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public; "a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence"

catcher, plate

n. the position on a baseball team of the player who is stationed behind home plate and who catches the balls that the pitcher throws; "a catcher needs a lot of protective equipment"; "a catcher plays behind the plate"

advantage, vantage

n. the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me"

use, function, role, purpose

n. what something is used for; "the function of an auger is to bore holes"; "ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"

asset, plus

n. a useful or valuable quality

welfare, benefit

n. something that aids or promotes well-being; "for the common good"

blessing, boon

n. a desirable state; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors"

reclaim, make useful

v. make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes"

transform

v. subject to a mathematical transformation

transform, translate

v. change from one form or medium into another; "Braque translated collage into oil"

transform, transmute

v. change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"

slack, slake, abate

v. make less active or intense

decrease, lessen, make smaller, minify

v. make smaller; "He decreased his staff"

strengthen, fortify, beef up

v. make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"

administer, dispense

v. give or apply (medications)

ease, comfort

v. lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate; "ease the pain in your legs"

reduce, simplify

v. make less complex; "reduce a problem to a single question"

simplify, make easier, make simpler

v. make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"

gain, benefit, profit

v. derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience"

assist, aid, help

v. give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house"

abet

v. assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing

hold, keep, maintain

v. keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes"

gain, benefit, profit

v. derive a benefit from; "She profited from his vast experience"

serve, help, help to some food, provide with food or drink

v. help to some food; help with food or drink; "I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

serve, dish, put on the table, dish up, serve up, dish out

v. provide (usually but not necessarily food); "We serve meals for the homeless"; "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M."; "The entertainers served up a lively show"

Synonyms (12)

endemic, autochthonous, autochthonal, autochthonic, indigenous

adj. originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan"

local, home-grown, homegrown

adj. grown or originating in a particular place; "stands selling homegrown fruits and vegetables"

native-born

adj. belonging to a place by birth; "a native-born Scot"; "a native Scot"

national

adj. limited to or in the interests of a particular nation; "national interests"; "isolationism is a strictly national policy"

broken, broken in

adj. tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in"

Antonyms (25)

interference, hindrance

n. the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding

difficulty, difficultness

n. the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"

worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, make worse

v. make worse; "This drug aggravates the pain"

finish, end, stop, halt, cease, run out, terminate, come to an end, close over

v. bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"

harass, oppress, persecute

v. annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers"

foreign

adj. of concern to or concerning the affairs of other nations (other than your own); "foreign trade"; "a foreign office"

undomestic

adj. not domestic or related to home; "had established herself in her career at the price of being so undomestic she didn't even know how to light the oven"

wild, untamed

adj. in a natural state; not tamed or domesticated or cultivated; "wild geese"; "edible wild plants"

domestic help

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