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| Main Entry: |
useful
 [yoos-fuhl] 
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, valuable |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, all-purpose, applied, appropriate, brave, commodious, convenient, effective, favorable, fit, fruitful, functional, good, handy, helpful, instrumental, meet, of assistance, of service, of use, practicable, practical, pragmatic, profitable, proper, propitious, purposive, salutary, serviceable, subsidiary, suitable, suited, toward, utile |
| Notes: | usable or useable means that something can be used; useful means that something is helpful or beneficial and can be used to advantage |
| Antonyms: | unusable, unvaluable, useless, worthless |
| Main Entry: | appropriate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suitable |
| Synonyms: | adapted, applicable, appurtenant, apropos, apt, becoming, befitting, belonging, congruous, convenient, correct, deserved, desired, due, felicitous, fit, fitting, germane, good, just, on the button, on the nose, opportune, pertinent, proper, relevant, right, rightful, seemly, tailor-made, true, useful, well-suited, well-timed |
| Antonyms: | improper, unbecoming, unfitting, unseemly, unsuitable, unsuited |
| Main Entry: | beneficial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous |
| Synonyms: | benign, constructive, favorable, favoring, gainful, good, good for what ails you, healthful, helpful, profitable, propitious, salubrious, salutary, serviceable, toward, useful, valuable, what the doctor ordered, wholesome, worthy |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurting, unfortunate, unhelpful, unrewarding |
Example Sentences
- Such bundles can not only transport an optical image over a tortuous path, but can also transform it in a number of useful ways.
- These clues are useful in determining how closely the animals are related to modern species.
- The mathematicians are producing useful models but the term dimension is a misnomer.
| Main Entry: | comfortable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good feeling |
| Synonyms: | adequate, agreeable, appropriate, at rest, cared for, cheerful, complacent, contented, convenient, cozy, delightful, easy, enjoyable, enjoying, gratified, hale, happy, healthy, hearty, loose, loose-fitting, made well, pleasant, pleased, protected, relaxed, relaxing, relieved, rested, restful, restored, satisfactory, satisfying, serene, sheltered, snug, snug as a bug in a rug, soft, soothed, strengthened, untroubled, useful, warm, well-off |
| Antonyms: | discontented, hopeless, miserable, neglected, uncomfortable, unhappy, upset |
| Main Entry: | conducive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable for |
| Synonyms: | accessory, calculated to produce, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, productive of, promotive, tending, useful |
| Antonyms: | adverse, discouraging, hindering, unconducive, unfavorable, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | constructive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helpful |
| Synonyms: | effective, positive, practical, productive, useful, valuable |
| Antonyms: | destructive, hurting, injurious, negative, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | cooperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | helpful |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, companionable, obliging, responsive, sociable, supportive, useful |
| Notes: | a co-op/cooperative is a multiunit building that a corporation owns and leases units to its owners; a condo/condominium is a multiunit building with units owned by individuals |
| Antonyms: | disobliging, encumbering, hindering, hurting, preventing, uncooperative, unhelpful, unsupportive |
| Main Entry: | desirable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous, good |
| Synonyms: | acceptable, advisable, agreeable, beneficial, covetable, eligible, enviable, expedient, grateful, gratifying, helpful, pleasing, preferable, profitable, useful, welcome, worthwhile |
| Antonyms: | bad, detrimental, disadvantageous, evil, harmful, hurtful, injurious, unprofitable |
| Main Entry: | effective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | productive, persuasive |
| Synonyms: | able, active, adequate, capable, cogent, compelling, competent, convincing, direct, effectual, efficacious, efficient, emphatic, energetic, forceful, forcible, having lead in pencil, impressive, live, moving, on the ball, operative, playing hardball, potent, powerful, powerhouse, practical, producing, resultant, serviceable, serving, sound, striking, sufficient, telling, trenchant, useful, valid, virtuous, wicked*, yielding |
| Antonyms: | fruitless, impotent, incapable, ineffective, unproductive, useless, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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