THESAURUS
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
ROGET THESAURUS
useful
Good
N
good, benefit, advantage, improvement, greatest good, supreme good, interest, service, behoof, behalf, weal, main chance, summum bonum, common weal, consummation devoutly to be wished, gain, boot, profit, harvest, boon, good turn, blessing, world of good, piece of good luck, piece of good fortune, nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove, good fortune, happiness, goodness, utility, remedy, pleasure giving, commendable,
useful, good, beneficial, well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis, all for the best, to one's advantage, in one's favor, in one's interest, so far so good, magnum bonum.
Instrumentality
N
instrumentality, aid, subservience, subserviency, mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand, agency, minister, handmaid, midwife, accoucheur, accoucheuse, obstetrician, gobetween, cat's-paw, stepping-stone, opener, key, master key, passkey, latchkey, open sesame, passport, passe-partout, safe-conduct, password, instrument, expedient, means, instrumental,
useful, ministerial, subservient, mediatorial, intermediate, intervening, conducive, through, by, per, whereby, thereby, hereby, by the agency of, by dint of, by virtue of, in virtue of, through the medium of, along with, on the shoulders of, by means of, by the aid of, with the aid of, per fas et nefas, by fair means or foul, somehow, somehow or other, by hook or by crook.
Utility
N
utility, usefulness, efficacy, efficiency, adequacy, service, use, stead, avail, help, applicability, subservience, function, value, worth, money's worth, productiveness, cui bono, utilization, step in the right direction, common weal, commonwealth public good, public interest, utilitarianism,
useful, of use, serviceable, proficuous, good for, subservient, conducive, subsidiary, advantageous, profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt, valuable, prolific, adequate, efficient, efficacious, effective, effectual, expedient, applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible, commodious, adaptable, of all work, usefully, pro bono publico.
Salubrity
N
salubrity, healthiness, fine air, fine climate, eudiometer, hygiene, valetudinarian, valetudinarianism, sanitarian, sanitarium, sanitOrium, salubrious, salutary, salutiferous, wholesome, healthy, healthful, sanitary, prophYlactic, benign, bracing, tonic, invigorating, good for, nutritious, hygeian, hygienic, innoxious, innocuous, innocent, harmless, uninjurious, uninfectious, sanative, restorative,
useful.
Use
N
use, employ, employment, exercise, exercitation, application, appliance, adhibition, disposal, consumption, agency, usufruct, usefulness, benefit, recourse, resort, avail, utilization, service, wear, usage, in use, used, well-worn, well-trodden,
useful, subservient.
Tendency
N
tendency, aptness, aptitude, proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibility, conatus, nisus, liability, quality, nature, temperament, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, cast, vein, grain, humor, mood, drift, conduciveness, conducement, applicability, subservience, tending, conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to, liable, subservient,
useful, subsidiary, for, whither.