| 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 |
| Definition: | value |
Synonyms: |
advantage, benefit, efficiency, practicality, suitability, utility |
Antonyms: |
unusefulness, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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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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| Main Entry: | avail |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use |
Synonyms: |
account, advantage, applicability, appropriateness, fitness, service, usefulness |
| 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: | good |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, benefit |
Synonyms: |
asset, avail, behalf, benediction, blessing, boon*, commonwealth, favor, gain, godsend, good fortune, interest, nugget, plum, prize, profit, prosperity, service, treasure, use, usefulness, welfare, well-being, windfall |
| Notes: | using good as an adverb in place of well ("she dances real good," "he did good") is nonstandard usage - so, it would be best to say "she dances very well," "he did well" well is an adverb to describe an activity; good is an adjective to describe a condition or state |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | importance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | significance, weight |
Synonyms: |
accent, attention, bearing, caliber, concern, concernment, consequence, denotation, distinction, drift*, effect, emphasis, force, gist*, gravity, import, influence, interest, materiality, moment, momentousness, notability, paramountcy, point, precedence, preponderance, preponderancy, priority, purport, relevance, sense, seriousness, signification, standing, stress, substance, tenor, usefulness, value, weightiness |
Antonyms: |
insignificance |
| Main Entry: | importance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prominence, standing |
Synonyms: |
consequence, conspicuousness, distinction, eminence, esteem, fame, greatness, influence, lionization, mark, notability, note, noteworthiness, rank, reputation, salience, status, usefulness, worth |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | practice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | routine, usual procedure |
Synonyms: |
convenance, convention, custom, fashion, form, habit, habitude, manner, method, mode, praxis, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, trick, usage, use, usefulness, utility, way, wont |
Antonyms: |
abstention, refrain |