| 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 |
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inconvenience, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness, waste |
| Main Entry: | kindness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compassion, generosity |
Synonyms: |
affection, altruism, amiability, beneficence, benevolence, charity, clemency, consideration, cordiality, courtesy, decency, delicacy, fellow feeling, forbearance, gentleness, good intention, good will, goodness, grace, graciousness, heart, helpfulness, hospitality, humanity, indulgence, kindliness, magnanimity, mildness, patience, philanthropy, serviceability, solicitousness, solicitude, sweetness, sympathy, tact, tenderness, thoughtfulness, tolerance, understanding, unselfishness |
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cruelty, harshness, meanness |
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
Synonyms: |
account, advantage, applicability, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, ministration, office, overhaul, relevance, serviceability, servicing, supply, use, usefulness, utility, value, work |
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damage, disservice, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
Synonyms: |
account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear, wont, worth |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | utility |
Synonyms: |
advantage, convenience, helpfulness, practicability, practicality, profitableness, serviceability, usability, value, versatility |
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
adequate, advantageous, applicable, at hand, available, commodious, conducive, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, expedient, functional, gainful, good for, handy, in use, instrumental, intarrisable, intermediate, intervening, mechanical, mediatorial, ministerial, of all work, of use, polychrestic, proficuous, profitable, prolific, qua, remunerative, serviceable, subservient, subsidiary, tangible, useful, valuable, well, worth one's salt
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| 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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| Concept: | Use. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail., [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear., [Way of using] usage.
-verbs
use, make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work., ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try., render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of., fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of., use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.
-adjectives
in use; used; well-worn, well-trodden., useful; subservient (instrumental).
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Antonyms: |
disuse, misuse |
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