utility

Main Entry:
utility [yoo-til-i-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: serviceableness
Synonyms: account, adequacy, advantage, advantageousness, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, expediency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, productiveness, profit, relevance, service, serviceability, use, usefulness
Main Entry: advantage
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: benefit, favored position or circumstance
Synonyms: aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, expediency, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leg-up, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, pre-eminence, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand, utility, wealth
Notes: advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage
Antonyms: disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction
Main Entry: cheap
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inexpensive
Synonyms: at a bargain, bargain, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, bought for a song, budget, buy, cheapo, competitive, cost next to nothing, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, dime a dozen, easy on the pocketbook, economical, half-priced, irregular, low tariff, low-cost, low-priced, lowered, marked down, moderate, nominal, on sale, popularly priced, real buy, reasonable, reduced, sale, slashed, standard, steal, uncostly, undear, utility, worth the money
Notes: cheap means relatively low in price or charging low prices, tastelessly showy, or of very poor quality while cheep is the short weak cry of a young bird, a chirp
Antonyms: costly, dear, expensive
Main Entry: convenience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: availability, usefulness; useful thing
Synonyms: accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, agreeableness, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, comforts, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, handiness, help, life, luxury, means, ministration, ministry, openness, opportuneness, promotion, receptiveness, relief, satisfaction, service, serviceability, succor, suitability, suitableness, support, time saver, use, utility
Antonyms: inconvenience, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness, waste
Main Entry: expediency/expedience
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: appropriateness; worth
Synonyms: advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility
Antonyms: disadvantage, inappropriateness
Main Entry: function
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: capacity, job
Synonyms: action, activity, affair, behavior, business, charge, concern, duty, employment, exercise, faculty, goal, mark, mission, object, objective, occupation, office, operation, part, post, power, province, purpose, raison d'être, responsibility, role, service, situation, target, task, use, utility, work
Main Entry: functional
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: working
Synonyms: handy, occupational, operative, practicable, practical, serviceable, useful, utile, utilitarian, utility
Antonyms: broken, idle, malfunctioning, unfunctional
Main Entry: help
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: assistance, relief
Synonyms: advice, aid, assist, avail, balm, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility
Antonyms: blockage, check, counteraction, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop
Main Entry: point
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: goal, aim
Synonyms: appeal, attraction, bottom line, charm, cogency, design, effectiveness, end, fascination, intent, intention, interest, motive, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, object, objective, punch*, purpose, reason, significance, use, usefulness, utility, validity, validness
Notes: the stylus, or point, of a record player is held by the cartridge; the base of the turntable is called the deck
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