usefuladjective
uk/ˈjuːs.fəl/us/ˈjuːs.fəl/A2 effective; helping you to do or achieve something:
A good knife is probably one of the most useful things you can have in a kitchen.
Do the exercises serve any useful purpose?
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- It would be useful to have a secretary to deal with all the paperwork.
- A laptop would be really useful for when I'm working on the train.
- This booklet provides useful information about local services.
- These small village shops serve a very useful purpose.
- Many employers consider hands-on experience to be as useful as academic qualifications.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Useful or advantageous
- a pearl of great price idiom
- a place in the sun idiom
- advantageous
- all-singing
- amiss
- corrective
- expedient
- favourable
- fodder
- foil
- fruitful
- fruitfulness
- palliative
- productive
- profitable
- repay
- repay sb's effort, time, attention, etc. idiom
- respite
- salutary
- sniff
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Idiom(s)
come in useful
make yourself useful