Antonyms for useful
ˈyus fəluse·ful

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1. usefuladjective

   Antonyms:
   unuseful, harmful, useless

   Synonyms:
   serviceable, utilitarian, noteful

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

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

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

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

1. useful

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

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

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. useful, utileadjective

   being of use or service

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

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

   Synonyms:
   utilitarian, utile

2. utilitarian, usefuladjective

   having a useful function

   "utilitarian steel tables"

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

   Synonyms:
   utilitarian, utile

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1. usefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   serviceable, advantageous, available

How to use useful in a sentence?

1. Irene Eckstrand:

   It's useful to predict where an outbreak is going.

2. Johann von Goethe:

   He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

3. Chris Painter:

   We discussed the idea of a cyber messaging system with Chinese officials during the President Barack Obama administration. It was brought up in the context of our cyber discussions, but we did not make much progress. It was not clear where it was going to be placed in China, and China did not have the same history of confidence-building measures with the US that Russia did, so they viewed it in a more suspicious way, but I think now they understand more about how it could be used. It is not a silver bullet, by any means, but it does give you a useful tool.

4. Jasper Graham:

   All of it is useful information ... even if it is tremendously burdensome and cumbersome.

5. Kevin McConway:

   This research provides some potentially very useful information relating to FASD, but I really don't think it tells us anything very helpful about how common these conditions are in the UK, the researchers used a screening tool that they had developed, which classified between 6 % and 17 % of the 13,500 children in their study as having symptoms of FASD, depending on which exact method they used.

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