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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

advantageous, advisable, agential, agentival, agentive, aidful, appropriate, assisting, auspicious, banausic, becoming, befitting, beneficial, benevolent, bon, bonny, brave, braw, bueno, capital, cogent, commendable, commodious, conducive, congruous, constructive, contributory, convenient, decent, desirable, effective, elegant, employable, estimable, excellent, expedient, facilitating, fair, famous, favorable, favoring, feasible, felicitous, fine, fit, fitten, fitting, forwarding, fructuous, fruitful, functional, furthersome, gainful, good, good for, goodly, grand, handy, happy, healthy, helpful, instrumental, intermediary, kind, laudable, likely, mediating, mediatorial, meet, ministerial, ministering, nice, noble, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, opportune, pleasant, politic, positive, practicable, practical, pragmatical, productive, profitable, promoting, proper, propitious, recommendable, regal, remedial, right, royal, salutary, seasonable, seemly, serviceable, skillful, sortable, sound, splendid, subservient, suitable, therapeutic, timely, to be desired, toward, usable, utilitarian, valid, valuable, very good, virtuous, well-timed, wise, worthwhile

Dictionary Results for useful:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

useful
    adj 1: being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and
           useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"
           [syn: useful, utile] [ant: useless]
    2: having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn:
       utilitarian, useful]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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;
   books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.
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         To what can I useful!                    --Milton.
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3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

USEFUL. That which may be put into beneficial practice. 
     2. The patent act of congress of July 4, 1836, sect. 6, in describing 
the subjects of patents, mentions "new and useful art," and "new and useful 
improvement." To entitle the inventor to a patent, his invention must, to a 
certain extent, be beneficial to the community, and not be for an unlawful 
object, or frivolous, or insignificant. 1 Mason, 182; 1 Pet. C. C. R. 322; 1 
Bald. 303; 14 Pick. 217; Paine, 203.

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