of service

ADJECTIVE

instrumental

Synonyms

STRONGEST

involved

WEAK

active auxiliary conducive contributory helpful helping of help partly responsible serviceable subsidiary useful

Antonyms

WEAK

unhelpful useless

ADJECTIVE

useful

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 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 successful pooch will replace the world-famous Bear, credited with saving over 100 koalas from bushfires during a decade of service.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

We’ll begin this week, though, with two entries of service journalism about a couple of suspect uses of taxpayer dollars that are in the pipeline.

From Slate • May 16, 2026

They are trying strategies like offering bigger return windows, innovative exchange deals and a more personal level of service for dissatisfied customers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

The rate of attrition, or the number of service members leaving the military, has also declined slightly, after being described as causing "a death spiral" by former Defence Minister Bill Blair in 2024.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

“But what kind of service did you expect if you've never ridden in a cab before?”

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris

of service

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