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Meaning of 'useful' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Useful [ a.]
- 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.

Meaning of 'useful' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . useful [ a]
Meaning (1):
- being of use or service
Example in sentence:
  • a useful job;
  • a useful member of society;
  • the girl felt motherly and useful
2 . useful [ s]
Meaning (2):
- having a useful function
Example in sentence:
  • utilitarian steel tables

Nearby Words:

use used usefully usefulness useless user

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