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| Main Entry: | instrumental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | influential, assisting |
| Synonyms: | active, auxiliary, conducive, helpful, helping, involved, serviceable, subsidiary, useful, contributory, of help, of service, partly responsible |
| Antonyms: | useless, unhelpful |
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| Main Entry: | helpful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, beneficent |
| Synonyms: | accessible, accommodating, advantageous, applicable, benevolent, conducive, considerate, constructive, convenient, cooperative, crucial, effectual, efficacious, essential, favorable, fortunate, friendly, important, improving, instrumental, invaluable, kind, neighborly, operative, practical, pragmatic, productive, profitable, serviceable, significant, suitable, sympathetic, timely, usable, useful, utilitarian, valuable, bettering, caring, contributive, good for, serendipitous, supportive, symbiotic |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful, injurious, useless, worthless, unconstructive, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | influential |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective, powerful |
| Synonyms: | affecting, authoritative, controlling, dominant, efficacious, famous, forcible, governing, important, impressive, inspiring, instrumental, leading, meaningful, momentous, moving, name, persuasive, potent, prominent, significant, strong, substantial, telling, touching, weighty, big-gun, big-wheel, guiding, hot-dog, major-league |
| Antonyms: | ineffective, ineffectual, unimportant, unmoving, weak, uninfluential |
| Main Entry: | music |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sounds that are pleasant, harmonized |
| Synonyms: | a cappella, acoustic, air, chamber, classical, folk, fusion, hard rock, harmony, hymn, instrumental, jazz, measure, melody, modern, piece, popular, rap, refrain, rock, singing, song, soul, strain, swing, tune, bebop, bop, heavy metal, opera, plainsong, ragtime, rock and roll |
| Antonyms: | silence |
| Main Entry: | profitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous; money-making |
| Synonyms: | assisting, beneficial, commercial, conducive, cost-effective, effective, effectual, favorable, fruitful, gainful, good, in the black, instrumental, lucrative, practical, pragmatic, productive, remunerative, rewarding, serviceable, successful, sweet*, useful, valuable, worthwhile, contributive, going, paid off, paying, paying well, self-sustaining, sustaining, well-paying |
| Antonyms: | disadvantageous, unprofitable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | usable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | available, working |
| Synonyms: | accessible, adaptable, advantageous, applicable, at hand, beneficial, convenient, current, exhaustible, expendable, fit, functional, good, helpful, instrumental, open, operative, practicable, practical, profitable, ready, running, serviceable, subservient, unused, useful, valid, valuable, at disposal, consumable, employable, exploitable, in order, utile, utilizable, wieldy |
| Notes: | usable or useable means that something can be used; useful means that something is helpful or beneficial and can be used to advantage |
| Antonyms: | useless, unusable |
| Main Entry: | useful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | beneficial, valuable |
| Synonyms: | advantageous, applied, appropriate, brave, commodious, convenient, effective, favorable, fit, fruitful, functional, good, handy, helpful, instrumental, meet, practicable, practical, pragmatic, profitable, proper, propitious, salutary, serviceable, subsidiary, suitable, suited, toward, all-purpose, of assistance, of service, of use, purposive, utile |
| Antonyms: | useless, worthless, unusable, unvaluable |
| Main Entry: | orchestral |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | symphonic |
| Synonyms: | concert, instrumental, musical, operatic, philharmonic, symphonious |
| Main Entry: | subservient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secondary, useful |
| Synonyms: | accessory, ancillary, auxiliary, bush-league*, collateral, conducive, flunky, helpful, inferior, instrumental, minor, serviceable, subordinate, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary, adjuvant, appurtenant, contributory |
| Antonyms: | unnecessary, useless, unhelpful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | materials |
| Part of Speech: | |
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Adjectives: |
flat, aeneous, aerose, air, banausic, biodegradable, cardiform, castellated, chadless, chartaceous, close, druxy, edge, electromechanical, end, half, hooked, instrumental, kiln, knotty, laniferous, ligniperdous, machinal, maduro, mechanical, mechanomorphic, merdurinous, mixed, open, pergameneous, plumb, pressure, rabbeted, raw, semidetached, semigloss, spring, sumpter, systatic, tongue, triple, vertical
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| Main Entry: | music |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
a cappella, accelerando, agitato, allegretto, allegro, andante, andantino, animato, appassionato, assonant, atonal, calando, canorous, choral, chromatic, classical, clear, clear as a bell, concentual, contrapuntal, crescendo, diatonic, diminuendo, dolce, dulcet, enchanting, enharmonic, euphonic, euphonical, euphonious, fidicinal, fine, fortissimo, full, go, grazioso, harmonical, harmonious, hip, homophonous, in concert, in concord, in tune, instrumental, isotonic, larghetto, largo, legato, lento, lyric, lyriform, lyrophorous, maestoso, marcato, martellato, measured, melismatic, mellifluous, mellow, melodious, melomaniac, modal, moderato, modern, modulaminous, musical, operatic, parlando, pedaliter, pentatonic, pianissimo, piano, pizzicato, plagal, playing, presto, rallentando, rhythmical, ripieno, ritardando, romantic, rubato, scherzando, semiclassical, semplice, silver, soft, sostenuto, spiccato, staccato, subito, sweet, symphonious, symphonizing, tenuto, tunable, tuneful, tutti, twelve, unplugged, vigoroso, vocal, zoppa
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