Antonyms for Useful
ˈyus fəluse·ful

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.6 / 7 votes

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, useful

2. utilitarian, usefuladjective

   having a useful function

   "utilitarian steel tables"

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

   Synonyms:
   utilitarian, utile, useful

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1. usefuladjective

   Synonyms:
   serviceable, advantageous, available

How to use Useful in a sentence?

1. Mambud Samai:

   We try to give them hope and then give them the credibility that they are useful, they are important to society.

2. Unknown:

   A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

3. Mike Baker:

   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.

4. Emmanuel Nahshon:

   If the French want to play a useful and positive role in the Middle East, they can't stand behind an initiative that is against Israel and only antagonizes us.

5. Scott Marion:

   I do think the data can be a useful baseline going forward, if this is the low point, or close to it, how are our kids going to come out of it going forward?

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