The Opposite(Antonym) of “obstructive”
The antonym of obstructive are facilitating, helpful, and cooperative. The antonyms facilitating, helpful, and cooperative convey a positive attitude towards helping others and making things easier.
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Definitions and Examples of facilitating, helpful, cooperative
Learn when and how to use these words with these examples!
Making an action or process easier or smoother.
Example
The new software is facilitating the work of the employees.
Giving or ready to give help; useful.
Example
The teacher was very helpful in explaining the difficult concepts.
Willing to work together towards a common goal.
Example
The team was very cooperative and managed to finish the project ahead of schedule.
Key Differences: facilitating vs helpful vs cooperative
- 1Facilitating refers to making something easier or smoother, while helpful refers to giving or ready to give help.
- 2Cooperative implies a willingness to work together towards a common goal, while obstructive implies a tendency to hinder progress or prevent success.
Effective Usage of facilitating, helpful, cooperative
- 1Business: Use facilitating and cooperative to describe employees who work well together and make processes smoother.
- 2Education: Use helpful to describe teachers who are willing to assist students in their learning process.
- 3Daily Life: Use these antonyms to describe people who are either helpful and cooperative or obstructive and uncooperative.
Remember this!
The antonyms have distinct nuances: Facilitating and helpful refer to making things easier and giving help, respectively. Cooperative implies a willingness to work together, while obstructive implies a tendency to hinder progress. Use these words in various contexts to describe people and situations that are either helpful and cooperative or obstructive and uncooperative.
