'Useful' definitions:
Definition of 'useful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society" [syn: useful, utile] [ant: useless]
adjective
Having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn: utilitarian, useful]
Definition of 'Useful'
From: GCIDE
- Useful \Use"ful\, a. 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. [1913 Webster]
- To what can I useful! --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'useful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Useful'
- In use,
- Of no use,
- Of use,
- Out of use,
- To use up,
- Use,
- Used,
- Usefully,
- Usefulness,
- Using,
- use up,
- used to,
- used up,
- using up,
- Contingent use,
- Resulting use,
- Sarum use,
- Secondary use,
- Shifting use,
- Springing use,
- Statute of uses,
- Superstitious use,
- To make use of,
- To put to use,
- York use,
- context of use,
- fair use,
- use diligence,
- use immunity,
- Cestuy que use,
- To use one's self,
- ill-use,
- ill-used,
- use of goods and services,
- used-car,
- used-car lot,
- native of some of the Pacific islands It is used by the natives as a candle the nut kernels being strung together The oil from the nut