Definitions for useful
ˈyus fəluse·ful

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. useful, utileadjective

   being of use or service

   "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"

2. utilitarian, usefuladjective

   having a useful function

   "utilitarian steel tables"

WiktionaryRate this definition:2.0 / 3 votes

1. usefuladjective

   Having a practical or beneficial use.

   This tool is very useful. It makes doing this task a lot easier.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Usefuladjective

   Convenient; profitable to any end; conducive or helpful to any purpose.

   Etymology: use and full.

   Providence would only enter mankind into the useful knowledge of her treasures, leaving the rest to employ our industry. Henry More, Antidote.

   Gold and silver being little useful to the life of man, in proportion to food, raiment, and carriage, has its value only from the consent of men. John Locke.

   That the legislature should have power to change the succession, is very useful towards preserving our religion and liberty. Jonathan Swift.

   Deliver a particular account of the great and useful things already performed. Jonathan Swift.

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1. useful

   Useful refers to something that serves a particular purpose, function, or is beneficial or advantageous in a specific context. It is capable of giving assistance, producing good results, or helping to achieve a certain goal.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. Usefuladjective

   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

Editors ContributionRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. useful

   To have a logical use.

   The governmental policies were useful, open and transparent.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on February 15, 2020  

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'useful' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1002

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'useful' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1251

3. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'useful' in Adjectives Frequency: #118

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of useful in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of useful in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of useful in a Sentence

1. Yoel Roth:

   Yeah. I could see us taking action under ‘misleading claims that cause confusion about the established laws, regulations, procedures, and methods of a civic process' but it's not one that we could really label in a useful way, so it's removal (of a stupid and ill-advised joke) or nothing. I'm maybe inclined not to remove without a report from voting authorities given it's been a while since he tweeted it and virtually all of the replies I'm seeing are critical/counterspeech.

2. Mike Baker:

   North Korea is a giant prison where mass starvation is happening. It is an insane regime where there is no respect for human rights, and it is patently absurd that they would take this opportunity to criticize the U.S. this leaves us with a propaganda piece that is a very useful tool not only for North Korea and other hostile nations, but more dangerously, for the Muslim extremists of ISIS and Al Qaeda who will use this to enhance their recruitment and propaganda efforts and to attempt to entice their supporters into violence.

3. Chris Kilham:

   – because your husband is right. Onions actually offer superior health benefits to some of our favorite superfoods, like pomegranates, green tea and red wine, he added. Manny Alvarez checked in with Chris Kilham, the Medicine Hunter, for a second opinion. Onions are especially high in beneficial antioxidants including the super-antioxidant, quercetin, which is useful for the heart, for the immune system( and) for many, many things in the body, i would make the claim that onions are among the healthiest of all foods Manny Alvarez could possibly eat, and that if Manny Alvarez eat an onion every day - and I ’m not talking raw, Manny Alvarez can cook it, prepare it any way Manny Alvarez like - Manny Alvarez will do far more for Manny Alvarez health than eating lots of the super fruits that are available.

4. George Wells:

   Packman, the director of Northwesterns Center for Water Research, said in a statement. Wastewater is an integrator of health signals across a community. Routine surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater may provide a rapid and inexpensive means to track progression of the pandemic, and may also be useful as an early warning signal for reemergence in the future.

5. Ralph Tripp:

   These treatments have seen some effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2, but they’re very expensive and very hard to come by, in reality, there are only a handful of options that can actually be used because of the cost, restricted IV usage, and lack of access. That’s not very useful to the world.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=useful
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Useful
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=useful
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/useful