Synonyms for useful
ˈyus fəluse·ful

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1. usefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   serviceable, utilitarian, noteful

   Antonyms:
   unuseful, harmful, useless

2. usefuladjective

   Having a practical or beneficial use.

   This tool is very useful. It makes doing this task a lot easier.

   Synonyms:
   noteful, serviceable, utilitarian

   Antonyms:
   harmful, useless, unuseful

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.2 / 5 votes

1. useful

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, wholesome

   Antonyms:
   bad, baneful, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, foul, harmful, hurtful, injurious, insalubrious, mischievous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, perverting, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, ruinous, unhealthful, unwholesome

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. useful

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, profitable, helpful, serviceable, beneficial, available, adapted, suited, conducive

   Antonyms:
   disadvantageous, unprofitable, obstructive, retardative, preventative, antagonistic, hostile, cumbersome, burdensome, unbeneficial, unavailable, inconducive, useless, fruitless, ineffectual

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1. useful, utileadjective

   being of use or service

   "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

   Synonyms:
   utilitarian, utile

   Antonyms:
   nonfunctional, inutile, futile, ineffectual, otiose, unuseable, unusable, unserviceable, useless, unavailing

2. utilitarian, usefuladjective

   having a useful function

   "utilitarian steel tables"

   Synonyms:
   utilitarian, utile

   Antonyms:
   otiose, inutile, ineffectual, unavailing, nonfunctional, unuseable, useless, futile, unusable, unserviceable

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1. advantageous.

   Submitted by ahmedamr7383 on November 29, 2022  

2. workful

   being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect.

   you saw nothing in london but what was severely workful.

   Submitted by rinat on August 26, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. usefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   advantageous, profitable, beneficial, serviceable, helpful, available, good, salutary, convenient

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1. usefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   serviceable, advantageous, available

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1. List of paraphrases for "useful":

   helpful, beneficial, valuable, worthwhile, meaningful, utility, usefulness, handy, relevant, good, fruitful, usable, salutary, instrumental, úteis, mufid, serviceable, usefully, interesting, advantageous, effective, worth, appropriate, instructive, sensible, actionable, desirable, convenient, advisable, benefit

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How to use useful in a sentence?

1. James Hedlund:

   Every state should look at [creating] laws...it's useful for all states because marijuana is not just confined to states where it is legal.

2. Doug Naselroad:

   We don't do the difficult work that the recovery centers do. We don't take people in who need to go through detox, what we do is we accept people into our studios when they've phased into a place where that's useful to them ; when they're ready to come out into the light of day. We try to occupy them and mitigate their recidivism.

3. Nick Papageorge:

   We need to understand these differences because we can wring our hands, and we can blame and shame, but in a way it doesn’t matter, policymakers just need to recognize who is going to socially distance, for how long, why and under what circumstances to give us accurate predictions of how the disease will spread and help us establish policies that will be useful.

4. James Nixey:

   Information is only useful, for the most part, if it's not being used, the most useful stuff is the stuff we don't hear about, by its very nature.

5. Ren Larison:

   Zebra have a need to keep foraging throughout the day, which keeps them out in the open more of the time than other animals, an additional cooling mechanism could be very useful under these circumstances.