Definitions

useful

[yoos-fuhl] / ˈyus fəl /

ADJECTIVE

beneficial, valuable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advantageous appropriate convenient effective favorable fruitful good handy helpful practical pragmatic profitable proper suitable

STRONG

utile

WEAK

all-purpose applied brave commodious fit functional instrumental meet of assistance of service of use practicable propitious purposive salutary serviceable subsidiary suited toward

Antonyms

STRONGEST

awkward bad disadvantageous disagreeable harmful hurtful impotent improper inappropriate incapable inconvenient injurious misbehaving unacceptable unfitting unhandy unhelpful unproductive unskilled unsuitable unsuited useless worthless

WEAK

unusable unvaluable

Example Sentences

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"Useful AI has arrived. AI is now a profit generator. AI is now a GDP generator."

From Barron's • Jun. 1, 2026

Appeared in the November 6, 2025, print edition as 'Kevin Roberts’s Useful Blunder'.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

The Really Useful Group, his longtime licensing and production company, has been rebranded as LW Entertainment, and is now headed by James McKnight, who previously worked with J.K.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 10, 2025

Arnold Schwarzenegger is in London to talk about his new book Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, which is receiving support in unlikely places.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2023

“You know your remedies. Useful skill. Your grandparents were healers?”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

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