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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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But she does have useful talents: fluent French and the ability to conjure delicious Sunday dinners for her bedazzled colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 22, 2026

Combining Cursor's software and product expertise with SpaceX's "Colossus" AI training supercomputer will enable the company "to build the world's most useful models," it said.

From Barron's • Apr. 21, 2026

For three weeks, McFarland and Brune followed short-lived storms that dissipated quickly, leaving them without useful data.

From Science Daily • Apr. 21, 2026

Sociologists believe it is possibly this dense symbolism that has made fish so politically useful.

From BBC • Apr. 20, 2026

He liked doctors, because they usually knew lots of useful things.

From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold