useful
useful is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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. To what can I useful! Milton.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- accoucheur
- accoucheuse
- advantage
- affect
- aftercrop
- aftergrowth
- aftermath
- agency
- agree
- aid
- air
- all
- along
- and
- applicability
- aptitude
- aptness
- aright
- arrish
- assimilate
- assistance
- behalf
- behoof
- bend
- beneficial
- benefit
- benign
- bent
- best
- bias
- bid
- blessing
- boon
- boot
- bracing
- calculated
- carry
- cast
- chance
- climate
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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