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most useful

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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The same shortage is a windfall for the companies on the other side of the wall, and the contrast is the most useful map an investor has.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

Holding both thoughts at once is the most useful thing any executive, investor or policymaker can do right now.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 7, 2026

What proved to be most useful to you?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

But it is one of the most useful things you can keep in your fridge: affordable, basically already prepped and flexible enough to become almost anything, depending on what you’re in the mood for.

From Salon • May 22, 2026

“Dad always said this was the most useful thing he’d ever brought from the city. It’s all high-tech alloys and monofilaments.”

From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld