useful
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈjuːsfəl/
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Adjective
useful (comparative usefuller or more useful, superlative usefullest or most useful)
- Having a practical or beneficial use.
- Synonyms: noteful, serviceable, utilitarian
- Antonyms: unuseful, useless, harmful
- 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
- Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
Usage notes
- Prepositions: useful is used in useful for <purpose>, useful for <person> and useful to <person>. The words useful to are also found in construction such as It is useful to do, in which to marks an infinitive rather than being a preposition.
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Translations
having a practical or beneficial use
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