serviceable

serviceable
    adj 1: ready for service or able to give long service;
           "serviceable equipment"; "heavy serviceable fabrics"
           [ant: {unserviceable}]
    2: capable of being put to good use; "a serviceable kitchen
       gadget"
    3: intended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration;
       "serviceable low-heeled shoes";
    

Serviceable \Serv"ice*a*ble\, a.
   1. Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage,
      or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end
      use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion
      and learning". --Atterbury. "Serviceable tools."
      --Macaulay.
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            I know thee well, a serviceable villain. --Shak.
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   2. Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for,
      the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
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            Courteous he was, lowly, and servysable. --Chaucer.
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            Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order serviceable.
                                                  --Milton.
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            Seeing her so sweet and serviceable.  --Tennnyson.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Serv"ice*a*ble*ness}, n. --
      {Serv"ice*a*bly}, adv.
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57 Moby Thesaurus words for "serviceable":
      advantageous, agential, agentival, agentive, aidful, aiding,
      appropriate, assisting, banausic, beneficial, commodious,
      conducive, constructive, contributory, durable, employable,
      expedient, facilitating, favoring, fitting, forwarding, functional,
      functioning, furthersome, good for, handy, helpful, instrumental,
      intermediary, long-lasting, mediating, mediatorial, ministerial,
      ministering, of general utility, of help, of service, of use,
      operating, operative, positive, practicable, practical,
      pragmatical, profitable, promoting, proper, remedial, salutary,
      subservient, therapeutic, tough, usable, useful, utilitarian,
      workable, working