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
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?
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Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
Our expert take The Ink Business Preferred® Credit Card is an excellent business card with useful benefits, valuable rewards and a generous welcome bonus.
—Ryley Amond,jason Stauffer, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
Readers of this newsletter will probably be familiar with the AI scaling laws—the observation that an AI’s capabilities increase in line with the amount of (useful) data and computing power that it is trained on.
—Billy Perrigo, Time, 14 Oct. 2025
Then ChatGPT entered the, well, chat, and became omnipresent and many multitudes of useful.
—James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Useful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/useful. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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