useful
ADJECTIVE:
1. being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect:
a useful member of society.
2. of practical use, as for doing work; producing material results; supplying common needs:
the useful arts; useful work.
3. able to be used advantageously, beneficially, or for several purposes; helpful or serviceable.
4. capable of being put to use, especially serviceable for an end or purpose:
useful tools.
5. of a valuable or productive kind:
do something useful with your life.
Examples:
Does anyone have any useful suggestions? // It can be useful to know CPR. —Merriam-Webster.
informal:
1. commendable or capable:
a useful term's work.
2. Australian. an odd-jobman or general factotum.
Origin:
First recorded in 1585–95; use + -ful. —Dictionary.com * // First Known Use of useful: 1595. —Merriam-Webster *
1. being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect:
a useful member of society.
2. of practical use, as for doing work; producing material results; supplying common needs:
the useful arts; useful work.
3. able to be used advantageously, beneficially, or for several purposes; helpful or serviceable.
4. capable of being put to use, especially serviceable for an end or purpose:
useful tools.
5. of a valuable or productive kind:
do something useful with your life.
Examples:
Does anyone have any useful suggestions? // It can be useful to know CPR. —Merriam-Webster.
informal:
1. commendable or capable:
a useful term's work.
2. Australian. an odd-jobman or general factotum.
Origin:
First recorded in 1585–95; use + -ful. —Dictionary.com * // First Known Use of useful: 1595. —Merriam-Webster *