 3 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
useful
adjective
1: being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and
useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"
[syn: {utile}] [ant: {useless}]
2: of great importance or use or service; "useful information";
"valuable advice" [syn: {valuable}, {of value}]
3: capable of being turned to use or account; "useful
applications of calculus"
4: having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn: {utilitarian}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Useful \Use"ful\, adjective
Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power
to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful
toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable;
advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family;
books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.
To what can I useful! --Milton.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "useful":
advantageous, advisable, agential, agentival, agentive, aidful,
appropriate, assisting, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting,
beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, braw, bueno, capital,
cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, congruous,
constructive, contributory, convenient, decent, desirable,
effective, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient,
facilitating, fair, famous, favorable, favoring, feasible,
felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, forwarding, fructuous,
fruitful, functional, furthersome, gainful, good, good for, goodly,
grand, handy, happy, healthy, helpful, instrumental, intermediary,
kind, laudable, likely, mediating, mediatorial, meet, ministerial,
ministering, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service,
of use, opportune, pleasant, politic, positive, practicable,
practical, pragmatical, productive, profitable, promoting, proper,
propitious, recommendable, regal, remedial, right, royal, salutary,
seasonable, seemly, serviceable, skillful, sortable, sound,
splendid, subservient, suitable, therapeutic, timely,
to be desired, toward, usable, utilitarian, valid, valuable,
very good, virtuous, well-timed, wise, worthwhile
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