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useful

adjectivecommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈjuːsfəl//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈjuːsfɫ̩]/
  • United Kingdom//ˈjʉwsfəl̩//
  • United Kingdom/[ˈjʉw̯sfɫ̩]/
  • Canada//ˈjusfəl//

Having a practical or beneficial use.

adjective

  1. 1

    Having a practical or beneficial use.

    prove useful

    practically useful

    That’s a very useful tool for gardeners.

    She found the information extremely useful.

Etymology

From use + -ful.

Forms

comparative
more useful, usefuller
superlative
most useful, usefullest
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).