useful

[yoos-fuhl] / ˈyus fəl /

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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"We have all this amazing data now, and we're trying to combine it with other data to find useful things. There are so many places that could benefit from this type of analysis."

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

Fidelity has a useful breakdown of the three agencies’ bond ratings.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

To be clear, some of this is useful.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

"There's a lot of apartments about here. I get that it is a really good location for apartments because the views would be amazing, but something more useful could go in."

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

But the fingerprint on the glass pane could still be useful.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

useful

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