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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of use

The ancient Romans had the stuff, it seems, but eventually it fell out of use.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Or it’s less severed than simply dormant, temporarily out of use.

From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026

Wrexham Council has served a temporary stop notice due to "a breach of planning control and the change of use of the land to a gypsy and traveller site with associated engineering operations".

From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026

Tesla's posts touted what it called the vehicle's safety and ease of use for disabled people, and said the Cybercab was "democratizing clean transportation for all."

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Her voice was hoarse from lack of use.

From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat

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