Word Meanings - USEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books

Additional info about word: USEFUL

Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts. To what can I useful! Milton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of USEFUL)

• Ancillary
• Assistant
• subservient
• promotive
• auxiliary
• accessory
• conducive
• available
• useful
• applicable
• Applicable
• Available
• ancilla
• convenient
• pertinent
• appropriate
• Compendious
• Condensed
• concentrated
• brief
• short
• succinct
• concise
• abridged
• commodious
• handy
• comprehensive
• compact
• Convenient
• Handy
• apt
• adapted
• fitted
• suitable
• helpful
• timely
• seasonable
• opportune
• Fruitful
• Productive
• prolific
• pregnant
• fraught
• causative
• effectual
• successful
• fertile
• abundant
• plenteous
• fecund
• plentiful

Related words: (words related to USEFUL)

• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• AVAILABLENESS
  1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. 2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
• COMPREHENSIVENESS
  The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• PLENTIFUL
  1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
• CAUSATIVE
  1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• PREGNANT
  1. Being with young, as a female; having conceived; great with young; breeding; teeming; gravid; preparing to bring forth. 2. Heavy with important contents, significance, or issue; full of consequence or results; weighty; as, pregnant replies.
• CONDENSATIVE
  Having the property of condensing.
• COMPACT
  1. Joined or held together; leagued; confederated. "Compact with her that's gone." Shak. A pipe of seven reeds, compact with wax together. Peacham. 2. Composed or made; -- with of. A wandering fire, Compact of unctuous vapor. Milton. 3. Closely
• COMPACTIBLE
  That may be compacted.
• PERTINENT
  1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• FRAUGHTAGE
  Freight; loading; cargo. Shak.
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• RECONDENSATION
  The act or process of recondensing.
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• UNFRUITFUL
  Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile; barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil; an unfruitful life or effort. -- Un*fruit"ful*ly, adv. -- Un*fruit"ful*ness, n.
• INOPPORTUNELY
  Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
• AUTOFECUNDATION
  Self-impregnation. Darwin.