of use

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 service 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

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Under the claim program announced Monday, residents and businesses are to be reimbursed for expenses such as hotel stays, loss of use, meals, transportation and loss of wages.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026

While digital wallets can offer convenience, that ease of use may come at a financial cost.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 19, 2026

A government spokesperson told the BBC councils would need to assess the impact on a community of a change of use.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

Ford put the EcoBoost through its torture test simulating 160,000 miles and over 10 years of use, then at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, tore it down for the public to prove its durability.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Most of the gold imprint designating whether a given piece was a bishop, king, queen, or whatever had, from years of use, worn off.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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