of assistance

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 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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General warrants and writs of assistance enraged the colonies precisely because they allowed British officials to rummage through homes and businesses without individualized suspicion.

From Slate • May 20, 2026

The reality is that most will require at least some level of assistance.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 15, 2026

France has built an expensive system of assistance to families with young children, but its birthrate is no higher than ours.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026

The pub chain has had a ban on dogs – with the exception of assistance dogs – in its UK pubs for a number of years.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

“You are among friends. Something is troubling you. If there’s anything either of us can do to be of assistance, you have only to ask.”

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick

of assistance

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