'Serviceable' definitions:
Definition of 'serviceable'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Ready for service or able to give long service; "serviceable equipment"; "heavy serviceable fabrics" [ant: unserviceable]
adjective
Capable of being put to good use; "a serviceable kitchen gadget"
adjective
Intended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration; "serviceable low-heeled shoes";
Definition of 'Serviceable'
From: GCIDE
- Serviceable \Serv"ice*a*ble\, a.
- 1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". --Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- I know thee well, a serviceable villain. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent. [1913 Webster]
- Courteous he was, lowly, and servysable. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order serviceable. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Seeing her so sweet and serviceable. --Tennnyson. [1913 Webster] -- {Serv"ice*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Serv"ice*a*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'serviceable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advantageous,
- agential,
- agentival,
- agentive,
- aidful,
- aiding,
- appropriate,
- assisting,
- banausic,
- beneficial,
- commodious,
- conducive,
- constructive,
- contributory,
- durable,
- employable,
- expedient,
- facilitating,
- favoring,
- fitting,
- forwarding,
- functional,
- functioning,
- furthersome,
- good for,
- handy,
- helpful,
- instrumental,
- intermediary,
- long-lasting,
- mediating,
- mediatorial,
- ministerial,
- ministering,
- of general utility,
- of help,
- of service,
- of use,
- operating,
- operative,
- positive,
- practicable,
- practical,
- pragmatical,
- profitable,
- promoting,
- proper,
- remedial,
- salutary,
- subservient,
- therapeutic,
- tough,
- usable,
- useful,
- utilitarian,
- workable,
- working
Words containing 'Serviceable'
- Service,
- Serviceableness,
- Serviceably,
- serviceability,
- services,
- servicing,
- Bond service,
- Bord service,
- Burial service,
- Choir service,
- Choral service,
- Civil service,
- Communion service,
- Free services,
- Heriot service,
- Knight service,
- Knight's service,
- Land service,
- Lip service,
- Preventive service,
- Rent service,
- Secret Service,
- Service berry,
- Service book,
- Service cap,
- Service elevator,
- Service entrance,
- Service hat,
- Service line,
- Service of a writ,
- Service of an attachment,
- Service of an execution,
- Service pipe,
- Service station,
- Service uniform,
- Suit and service,
- Suit service,
- Tea service,
- The signal service,
- To accept service,
- To see service,
- Toilet service,
- Wild service,
- advisory service,
- armed service,
- armed services,
- attestation service,
- bus service,
- chapel service,
- church service,
- committal service,
- community service,
- consulting service,
- curb service,
- customs service,
- debt service,
- dinner service,
- diplomatic service,
- divine service,
- extension service,
- foreign service,
- gas service,
- ill service,
- intelligence service,
- length of service,
- mail service,
- military service,
- national service,
- phone service,
- postal service,
- power service,
- prayer service,
- public service,
- religious service,
- security service,
- selective service,
- service abroad,
- service agency,
- service area,
- service break,
- service bureau,
- service call,
- service ceiling,
- service charge,
- service club,
- service contract,
- service cutback,
- service department,
- service door,
- service fee,
- service firm,
- service industry,
- service man,
- service of process,
- service program,
- service road,
- service routine,
- service staff,
- service stripe,
- service tree,
- social service,
- table service,
- telephone service,
- wire service,
- Citizens Radio Service,
- Civil Service Commission,
- Civil Service Reform,
- To muster troops into service,
- To muster troops out of service,
- cable television service,
- child welfare service,
- distinguished service cross,
- distinguished service medal,
- distinguished service order,
- electronic information service,
- federal protective service,
- federal security service,
- financial management service,
- foreign intelligence service,
- full service bank,
- general security services,
- general services administration,
- health and human services,
- immigration and naturalization service,
- internal revenue service,
- iraqi intelligence service,
- national park service,
- national weather service,
- robert william service,
- secret intelligence service,
- selective service system,
- self-service,
- special air service,
- us marshals service,
- us postal service,
- us secret service,
- use of goods and services,
- web map service,
- wild service tree,
- Merchant service or Merchant marine,
- Public-service corporation,
- canadian security intelligence service,
- criminal intelligence services of canada,
- defense reutilization and marketing service,
- department of health and human services,
- ground-service crew,
- inter-service support,
- inter-services intelligence,
- national technical information service,
- secretary of health and human services,
- united states marshals service,
- united states postal service,
- united states secret service,
- us fish and wildlife service,
- us postal inspection service,
- directorate for inter-services intelligence,
- united states fish and wildlife service,
- united states postal inspection service,
- united states public health service