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| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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adjutorious, adjuvant, ancillary, at one's beck, auxiliary, cataskeuastic, coadjuvant, favorable, friendly, helpful, ministrant, neighborly, obliging, propitious, subservient, subsidiary, succursal, well
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| Concept: | Good. |
| Category: | 3. Objects of volition |
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-nouns
good, benefit, advantage; improvement; greatest good, supreme good; interest, service, behoof, behalf; weal; main chance, summum bonum, common weal; "consummation devoutly to be wished"; gain, boot; profit, harvest., boon (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure trove., good fortune (prosperity); happiness., [Source of good] goodness [more]; utility; remedy; pleasure giving.
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-adverbs
well, aright, satisfactorily, favorably, not amis; all for the best; to one's advantage; in one's favor, in one's interest.
-phrases
so far so good; magnum bonum.
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| Antonyms: | evil |
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| Concept: | Use. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
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-nouns
use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail., [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear., [Way of using] usage.
-verbs
use, make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work., ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try., render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of., fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of., use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.
-adjectives
in use; used; well-worn, well-trodden., useful; subservient (instrumental).
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| Antonyms: | disuse, misuse |
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| Concept: | Utility. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
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-nouns
utility; usefulness; efficacy, efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help (aid); applicability; subservience (instrumentality); function (business); value; worth (goodness); money's worth; productiveness; cui bono (intention); utilization (use) step in the right direction., common weal; commonwealth, public good, public interest; utilitarianism (philanthropy).
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be useful; avail, serve; subserve (be instrumental to); conduce (tend); answer, serve one's turn, answer a purpose, serve a purpose., act a part (action); perform a function, discharge a function; render a service, render good service, render yeoman's service; bestead, stand one in good stead be the making of; help., bear fruit (produce); bring grist to the mill; profit, remunerate; benefit (do good)., find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of (be better for). render useful (use) [more].
-adjectives
useful; of use; serviceable, proficuous, good for; subservient (instrumental); conducive (tending); subsidiary (helping)., advantageous (beneficial); profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt; valuable; prolific (productive)., adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient., applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious, adaptable; of all work.
-adverbs
usefully; pro bono publico.
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| Antonyms: | inutility |
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