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useful

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
use=ful

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective useful has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

usefula. 
     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!"  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

useful, adj.
1 a of use; serviceable. b producing or able to produce good results (gave me some useful hints).
2 colloq. highly creditable or efficient (a useful performance).

Idiom
make oneself useful perform useful services. useful load the load carried by an aircraft etc. in addition to its own weight.
Derivative
usefully adv. usefulness n.

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.

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