useful

useful: use|ful

W1S1 [ˈju:sfəl] adj

helping you to do or get what you want

≠ ↑useless

▪ The book is full of useful information.

▪ Bar charts are a useful way of looking at sets of figures.

▪ The Internet is becoming a useful tool for investors.

useful for

▪ Television is useful for making up your mind how to vote.

useful to

▪ information that may be useful to the enemy

▪ It may be useful to consider the data separately.

▪ The research may prove useful for applications in medicine and biotechnology.

▪ techniques that teachers have found useful

▪ Sometimes he would make himself useful in the kitchen by cleaning and tidying.

▪ She couldn't bear to throw away anything that might come in useful one day.

>usefully adv

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COLLOCATES for sense 1

useful information/advice/tip

useful way of doing something

useful tool (=useful method or thing that you can use)

it is useful to do something

prove useful

find something useful

make yourself useful (=be helpful)

come in useful (=be useful)

serve a useful purpose/function (=be useful)

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Synonyms:

Advantageous, profitable, beneficial, serviceable, helpful, available, good, salutary, convenient / Serviceable, helpful, valuable, available

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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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
useful — index applicable, beneficial, constructive (creative), contributory, convenient, disposable, effective ( … Law dictionary
useful — 1590s, from USE (Cf. use) (n.) + FULL (Cf. full). Related: Usefully; usefulness … Etymology dictionary
useful — [adj] beneficial, valuable advantageous, all purpose, applied, appropriate, brave, commodious, convenient, effective, favorable, fit, fruitful, functional, good, handy, helpful, instrumental, meet, of assistance, of service, of use, practicable,… … New thesaurus
useful — ► ADJECTIVE 1) able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways. 2) informal very able or competent. DERIVATIVES usefully adverb usefulness noun … English terms dictionary
useful — [yo͞os′fəl] adj. that can be used to advantage; serviceable; helpful; beneficial; often, having practical utility usefully adv. usefulness n … English World dictionary
useful */*/*/ — UK [ˈjuːsf(ə)l] / US [ˈjusf(ə)l] adjective Get it right: useful: Although the adjective full ends with a double l , adjectives like useful have only one l : Wrong: Find a more usefull spare time activity than driving around in a car. Right: Find… … English dictionary
useful — use|ful [ jusfəl ] adjective *** helpful for doing or achieving something: Here s some useful information about travel in Canada. a useful tool/technique/gadget Her book is a useful contribution to our understanding of how Mozart worked. useful… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
useful — adj. VERBS ▪ be, look, prove, seem ▪ become ▪ make yourself ▪ She told Fred to make himself useful … Collocations dictionary
useful — / ju:sfFl/ adjective 1 helping you to do or get what you want: useful information | Dean s a really useful person to have around when things go wrong. | useful to sb: information that may be useful to the enemy | useful for sth: These yellow… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English

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