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  

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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. Edward Gibbon:

   The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful.

2. Phil Buchanan:

   There are all kinds of sort of bizarre traditions in societies, and this strikes me as, potentially, a more useful one than many others if it can raise that kind of money.

3. Karen Cunningham:

   There's the solid, focused six to eight hours of work that you wouldn't want to bring a baby in for, but then there's the lab errands that you do here and there and that's when it's really useful, i can put Katie down and just go do something quick and I can see her and talk to her and she can nap in there. It's great.

4. Dave Clark:

   The actual — sort of total number of cases — isn't particularly useful because it's relative to the size of the building and then the overall community infection rate.

5. Michael McKinley:

   The timing of my resignation was the result of two overriding concerns : the failure in my view, of the State Department to offer support to Foreign Service employees caught up in the impeachment inquiry ; and, second, by what appears to be the utilization of our ambassadors overseas to advance domestic political objectives, to see the emerging information on the engagement of our missions to procure negative political information for domestic purposes, combined with the failure I saw in the building to provide support for our professional cadre in a particularly trying time, I think the combination was a pretty good reason to decide enough, that I had no longer a useful role to play.