| Main Entry: | utility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serviceableness |
Synonyms: |
account, adequacy, advantage, advantageousness, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, expediency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, productiveness, profit, relevance, service, serviceability, use, usefulness |
| Concept: | Utility. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; degree of subservience |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
utility; usefulness; efficacy, efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help (aid); applicability; subservience (instrumentality); function (business); value; worth (goodness); money's worth; productiveness; cui bono (intention); utilization (use) step in the right direction., common weal; commonwealth, public good, public interest; utilitarianism (philanthropy).
-verbs
be useful; avail, serve; subserve (be instrumental to); conduce (tend); answer, serve one's turn, answer a purpose, serve a purpose., act a part (action); perform a function, discharge a function; render a service, render good service, render yeoman's service; bestead, stand one in good stead be the making of; help., bear fruit (produce); bring grist to the mill; profit, remunerate; benefit (do good)., find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of (be better for). render useful (use) [more].
-adjectives
useful; of use; serviceable, proficuous, good for; subservient (instrumental); conducive (tending); subsidiary (helping)., advantageous (beneficial); profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt; valuable; prolific (productive)., adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient., applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious, adaptable; of all work.
-adverbs
usefully; pro bono publico.
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Antonyms: |
inutility |
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| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
Synonyms: |
aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, expediency, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leg-up, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, pre-eminence, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand, utility, wealth |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexpensive |
Synonyms: |
at a bargain, bargain, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, bought for a song, budget, buy, cheapo, competitive, cost next to nothing, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, dime a dozen, easy on the pocketbook, economical, half-priced, irregular, low tariff, low-cost, low-priced, lowered, marked down, moderate, nominal, on sale, popularly priced, real buy, reasonable, reduced, sale, slashed, standard, steal, uncostly, undear, utility, worth the money |
Antonyms: |
costly, dear, expensive |
| Main Entry: | convenience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | availability, usefulness; useful thing |
Synonyms: |
accessibility, accessory, accommodation, advancement, advantage, agreeableness, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, comforts, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, handiness, help, life, luxury, means, ministration, ministry, openness, opportuneness, promotion, receptiveness, relief, satisfaction, service, serviceability, succor, suitability, suitableness, support, time saver, use, utility |
Antonyms: |
inconvenience, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness, waste |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
Synonyms: |
advantage, advantageousness, advisability, appositeness, aptness, benefit, convenience, desirability, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, judiciousness, meetness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, propriety, prudence, rightness, suitability, usefulness, utilitarianism, utility |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, inappropriateness |
| Main Entry: | function |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, job |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, affair, behavior, business, charge, concern, duty, employment, exercise, faculty, goal, mark, mission, object, objective, occupation, office, operation, part, post, power, province, purpose, raison d'être, responsibility, role, service, situation, target, task, use, utility, work |
| Main Entry: | functional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | working |
Synonyms: |
handy, occupational, operative, practicable, practical, serviceable, useful, utile, utilitarian, utility |
Antonyms: |
broken, idle, malfunctioning, unfunctional |
| Main Entry: | help |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assistance, relief |
Synonyms: |
advice, aid, assist, avail, balm, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility |
Antonyms: |
blockage, check, counteraction, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop |
| Main Entry: | point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | goal, aim |
Synonyms: |
appeal, attraction, bottom line, charm, cogency, design, effectiveness, end, fascination, intent, intention, interest, motive, name of the game, nitty-gritty, nub, nuts and bolts, object, objective, punch*, purpose, reason, significance, use, usefulness, utility, validity, validness |