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Synonyms for useful
ˈyus fəluse·ful
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Wiktionary
usefuladjective
Synonyms:
serviceable, utilitarian, notefulusefuladjective
Having a practical or beneficial use.
This tool is very useful. It makes doing this task a lot easier.
Synonyms:
noteful, serviceable, utilitarian
English Synonyms and Antonyms
useful
Synonyms:
advantageous, beneficent, beneficial, favorable, good, healthful, helpful, invigorating, life-giving, profitable, rejuvenating, salutary, serviceable, wholesomeAntonyms:
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 Antonyms
useful
Synonyms:
advantageous, profitable, helpful, serviceable, beneficial, available, adapted, suited, conduciveAntonyms:
disadvantageous, unprofitable, obstructive, retardative, preventative, antagonistic, hostile, cumbersome, burdensome, unbeneficial, unavailable, inconducive, useless, fruitless, ineffectual
Princeton's WordNet
useful, utileadjective
being of use or service
"the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"
Synonyms:
utilitarian, utileAntonyms:
nonfunctional, inutile, futile, ineffectual, otiose, unuseable, unusable, unserviceable, useless, unavailingutilitarian, usefuladjective
having a useful function
"utilitarian steel tables"
Synonyms:
utilitarian, utileAntonyms:
otiose, inutile, ineffectual, unavailing, nonfunctional, unuseable, useless, futile, unusable, unserviceable
Editors Contribution
advantageous.
Submitted by ahmedamr7383 on November 29, 2022workful
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 Synonymes
usefuladjective
Synonyms:
advantageous, profitable, beneficial, serviceable, helpful, available, good, salutary, convenient
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
usefuladjective
Synonyms:
serviceable, advantageous, available
PPDB, the paraphrase database
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
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#146 | available | |
#155 | good | |
#1068 | effective | |
#1152 | appropriate | |
#1412 | useful | |
#1708 | worth | |
#1727 | benefit | |
#1748 | interesting | |
#1781 | helpful | |
#1816 | relevant | |
#2804 | utility | |
#4080 | valuable | |
#5143 | convenient | |
#7345 | handy | |
#7883 | beneficial | |
#8204 | meaningful | |
#8207 | adapted | |
#8242 | instrumental | |
#9037 | desirable | |
#9289 | suited | |
#10437 | profitable | |
#11528 | favorable | |
#12564 | sensible | |
#12871 | usable | |
#13862 | worthwhile | |
#16611 | usefulness | |
#21263 | advisable | |
#23212 | advantageous | |
#24389 | conducive | |
#24414 | fruitful | |
#29956 | wholesome | |
#32975 | instructive | |
#34967 | actionable | |
#39413 | healthful | |
#42104 | utilitarian | |
#44203 | serviceable | |
#45528 | invigorating | |
#48153 | usefully | |
#54511 | utile | |
#59610 | rejuvenating | |
#78072 | salutary | |
#78321 | beneficent |
How to use useful in a sentence?
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
It can be really useful and really dangerous, part of being a responsible person in the political sphere is trying to figure out what's real and what's not -- what are just opinions. Even the littlest thing that someone does can be twisted into something that its not. There's a danger in that, obviously.
The way Jair Bolsonaro narrative is built, to a large extent, as a copy or a mirror image of the narrative that they have in United States is very useful in the sense of showing people this is happening in other places, too. This proves the whole idea that there is a global conspiracy, a global left wing conspiracy to keep us, the people who represent the real people, out of power.
North Korea is a giant prison where mass starvation is happening. It is an insane regime where there is no respect for human rights, and it is patently absurd that they would take this opportunity to criticize the U.S. this leaves us with a propaganda piece that is a very useful tool not only for North Korea and other hostile nations, but more dangerously, for the Muslim extremists of ISIS and Al Qaeda who will use this to enhance their recruitment and propaganda efforts and to attempt to entice their supporters into violence.
Coffee comes only once a year. But you can harvest khat twice a year, khat is much more useful.
Translations for useful
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- geskiktAfrikaans
- مفيد, نافعArabic
- lazımlıAzerbaijani
- полезенBulgarian
- útilCatalan, Valencian
- užitečnýCzech
- buddiolWelsh
- nyttigDanish
- nützlichGerman
- χρήσιμοςGreek
- utilaEsperanto
- útilSpanish
- kasulikEstonian
- مفید, سودمندPersian
- käytännöllinen, hyödyllinenFinnish
- nýttigurFaroese
- utileFrench
- nuttichWestern Frisian
- úsáideachIrish
- goireasachScottish Gaelic
- útilGalician
- upayogiHindi
- itilHaitian Creole
- hasznosHungarian
- bergunaIndonesian
- gagnlegurIcelandic
- utileItalian
- სასარგებლოGeorgian
- بهکهڵک, بهسوود, به دهسدKurdish
- utilisLatin
- naudingasLithuanian
- derīgsLatvian
- whaihuaMāori
- хэрэгтэйMongolian
- bergunaMalay
- dienstig, bruikbaar, nuttigDutch
- nyttigNorwegian
- pożytecznyPolish
- útilPortuguese
- trebuincios, util, folositorRomanian
- практичный, пригодный, полезный, нелишнийRussian
- užitočnýSlovak
- uporabenSlovene
- dobishëmAlbanian
- nyttig, användbarSwedish
- faidaSwahili
- ఉపయోగకరముTelugu
- ที่มีประโยชน์Thai
- may bisa, makabuluhanTagalog
- yararlı, faydalıTurkish
- bolmaqUyghur, Uighur
- кориснийUkrainian
- مفیدUrdu
- có íchVietnamese
- nusikYiddish
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