Dic:// unhelpful

─. If you say that someone or something is unhelpful, you mean that they do not help you or improve a situation, and may even make things worse.

─. not helping in a situation and sometimes making it worse.

─ 1. not improving a difficult situation:

• The instruction were badly written and unhelpful.
• I don't need any more of your unhelpful advice!

─ 2. not wanting to help someone, in a way that seems unfriendly:

• The shop assistant was rude and unhelpful.

─ 1. not willing or able to help.

• The woman was very unhelpful.

─ 2. not useful:

• Criticism is unhelpful, to say the least.

......Cobuild, LDOCE, CALD, Macmillan