useful
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Useful \Use"ful\, a.
Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power
to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful
toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable;
advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family;
books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.
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To what can I useful! --Milton.
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from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
USEFUL. That which may be put into beneficial practice.
2. The patent act of congress of July 4, 1836, sect. 6, in describing
the subjects of patents, mentions "new and useful art," and "new and useful
improvement." To entitle the inventor to a patent, his invention must, to a
certain extent, be beneficial to the community, and not be for an unlawful
object, or frivolous, or insignificant. 1 Mason, 182; 1 Pet. C. C. R. 322; 1
Bald. 303; 14 Pick. 217; Paine, 203.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "useful":
advantageous, advisable, agential, agentival, agentive, aidful,
appropriate, assisting, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting,
beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, braw, bueno, capital,
cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, congruous,
constructive, contributory, convenient, decent, desirable,
effective, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient,
facilitating, fair, famous, favorable, favoring, feasible,
felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, forwarding, fructuous,
fruitful, functional, furthersome, gainful, good, good for, goodly,
grand, handy, happy, healthy, helpful, instrumental, intermediary,
kind, laudable, likely, mediating, mediatorial, meet, ministerial,
ministering, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service,
of use, opportune, pleasant, politic, positive, practicable,
practical, pragmatical, productive, profitable, promoting, proper,
propitious, recommendable, regal, remedial, right, royal, salutary,
seasonable, seemly, serviceable, skillful, sortable, sound,
splendid, subservient, suitable, therapeutic, timely,
to be desired, toward, usable, utilitarian, valid, valuable,
very good, virtuous, well-timed, wise, worthwhile
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