1
: capable of being put to use
especially
: serviceable for an end or purpose
useful tools
2
: of a valuable or productive kind
do something useful with your life
Synonyms
Examples of useful in a Sentence
Does anyone have any useful suggestions?
It can be useful to know CPR.
The Internet is useful for finding information quickly.
She has become one of the team's most useful players.
Why don't you do something useful with your life?
Recent Examples on the Web
The American Astronomical Society has compiled a list of useful ones for both iOS and Android devices, including its own Totality app that shows your location on a map of the totality path.
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Kelvin Chan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
Each of these scenarios provides a useful overview of how tweaking support and turnout could affect the 2024 election outcome.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
While some organizations such as NASA have compiled useful guides for viewing the eclipse and learning more about it, others have developed mobile apps to gather all of the information and tools together in one place.
—Will Henshall, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite its roots, figuring out where your hair lies on the spectrum is a useful consumer tool.
—Janell Hickman-Kirby, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
Over the millennia, different societies developed light-colored and lightweight cloth that would prove useful for protecting oneself against harmful sun exposure.
—Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
No wonder, then, that the companies also became a useful symbol as the nation hurtled from election to war.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
End of carousel The new Google can do some useful things.
—Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
And there are several smaller ones with useful capacity.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
Kelvin Chan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2024
Each of these scenarios provides a useful overview of how tweaking support and turnout could affect the 2024 election outcome.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
While some organizations such as NASA have compiled useful guides for viewing the eclipse and learning more about it, others have developed mobile apps to gather all of the information and tools together in one place.
—Will Henshall, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
Despite its roots, figuring out where your hair lies on the spectrum is a useful consumer tool.
—Janell Hickman-Kirby, Vogue, 3 Apr. 2024
Over the millennia, different societies developed light-colored and lightweight cloth that would prove useful for protecting oneself against harmful sun exposure.
—Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
No wonder, then, that the companies also became a useful symbol as the nation hurtled from election to war.
—Jon Grinspan, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Apr. 2024
End of carousel The new Google can do some useful things.
—Geoffrey A. Fowler, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024
And there are several smaller ones with useful capacity.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 31 Mar. 2024
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“Useful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/useful. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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