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. Adrian Hill:

   If it continues, we will get an answer, and that would be very useful indeed.

2. Karen VanAusdal:

   Routines and rituals can be very comforting and useful, i believe in keeping them and then stretching one piece( of them) to add in something new, while allowing the kid the agency and power to decide if they want to do it.

3. Bob Collymore:

   There's no shortage of innovation, there's just a shortage of useful innovation that meets need, nO ROADMAP.

4. Nicholson Baker:

   In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.

5. Nick Chater:

   Data is useful, but I think the most important thing is looking at the experience in other countries, in the UK, the government's projections are that in a good scenario, 20,000 people die... but that's very hard to make sense of until you realize what's happening in Italy now.