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unhelpful

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unhelpful
Adjective
doing nothing to improve a situation
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.unhelpfulunhelpful - providing no assistance              
uncooperative - unwilling to cooperate; "an uncooperative witness"
discouraging - depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action; "where never is heard a discouraging word"
helpful - providing assistance or serving a useful function
Translations

unhelpful [ʌnˈhɛlpful] adj [person] → poco servicial; [advice] → inĂștil
unhelpful [ʌnˈhɛlpful] adj [person] → peu serviable; [advice] → peu utile
unhelpful [ʌnˈhɛlpful] adj [person] → nicht hilfreich; [advice] → nutzlos
unhelpful [ʌnˈhɛlpful] adjpoco disponibile

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Three of the villagers did certainly assure us that they had seen the woman, but as they were quite unable to describe her, and quite incapable of agreeing about the exact direction in which she was proceeding when they last saw her, these three bright exceptions to the general rule of total ignorance afforded no more real assistance to us than the mass of their unhelpful and unobservant neighbours.
 
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