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useful

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Word definitions for useful in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from use (n.) + -full . Related: Usefully ; usefulness .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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; ...

Usage examples of useful.

For every hundred useless aberrations there may be one that is useful, that provides its bearer an advantage over its kin.

It is useful in those diseases in which the fluids of the body are abnormally acid, as in rheumatism.

Bismarck and Cavour seized the opportunity of making extremely useful for Germany and Italy the irrelevant and vacillating idealism and the timid absolutism of the third Napoleon.

Much useful comparative information was obtained during the following minute of suspended ecstasy, during which the female tongues parted into thousands of fine tentacles, exploring every accessible cavity of the male bodies.

On the accession of Alexander he returned to court, and was placed by that prince in a station useful to the service, and honorable to himself.

Chi, Yoga, or acupressure will make you more aware of the energy in your body and can serve as a useful supplement to this book.

He stood by his assertion that cocaine could be useful in the process of weaning opium addicts from their addiction, justifiying this statement by asserting that cocaine would be addictive only to a certain type of weak personality.

This letter is for the Lord Adelantado also, that he may see how Amerigo Vespucci can be useful, and advise him about it.

Keep it in perspective and you will find it a useful part of your advertising budget.

Later arrivals could not have initiated any major changes in the language or culture, although they may have introduced one or more useful plants and an adze or two of exotic type.

Dandelion, Gentian and Valerian for some reason have survived and the Homeopaths use many more, but such useful plants as Agrimony, Slippery Elm, Horehound, Bistort, Poplar, Bur Marigold, Wood Betony, Wood Sanicle, Wild Carrot, Raspberry leaves, and the Sarsaparillas are now only used by Herbalists.

The bunches of agrimony hanging head downward inside the warm dark cave were an infusion of the dried flowers and leaves useful for bruises and injuries to internal organs, as much as they were tall slender perennials with toothed leaves and tiny yellow flowers growing on tapering spikes.

Long experience in the treatment of everyday ailments indicate that the most generally useful potency is the 6x and this is the potency usually recommended.

There was this lump of iron that I had dragged all the way back from the Galactic West, encased in aluminum and neutronium and alnico magnets, hanging there in its orbit, quite useless, so far, but potentially extremely useful.

Now, however, the amaranth fields had caused them to see that the prairie was also useful land, which they needed to control.