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utility - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | utility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | serviceableness |
| Synonyms: | account, adequacy, advantage, appropriateness, avail, benefit, convenience, efficacy, efficiency, favor, fitness, function, point, practicality, profit, service, use, usefulness, advantageousness, applicability, expediency, productiveness, relevance, serviceability |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
utility; usefulness; efficacy, efficiency, adequacy; service, use, stead, avail; help (aid) [more]; applicability; subservience (instrumentality) [more]; function (business) [more]; value; worth (goodness) [more]; money's worth; productiveness [more]; cui bono (intention) [more]; utilization (use) [more] step in the right direction., common weal; commonwealth, public good, public interest; utilitarianism (philanthropy) [more].
-verbs
be useful; avail, serve; subserve (be instrumental to) [more]; conduce (tend) [more]; answer, serve one's turn, answer a purpose, serve a purpose., act a part (action) [more]; 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 [more]., bear fruit (produce) [more]; bring grist to the mill; profit, remunerate; benefit (do good) [more]., find one's account in, find one's advantage in; reap the benefit of (be better for) [more]. render useful (use) [more].
-adjectives
useful; of use; serviceable, proficuous, good for; subservient (instrumental) [more]; conducive (tending) [more]; subsidiary (helping) [more]., advantageous (beneficial) [more]; profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt; valuable; prolific (productive) [more]., adequate; efficient, efficacious; effective, effectual; expedient [more]., applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible; commodious, adaptable; of all work.
-adverbs
usefully; pro bono publico.
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| Antonyms: | inutility |
| 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, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | functional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | working |
| Synonyms: | handy, occupational, operative, practicable, practical, serviceable, useful, utilitarian, utility, utile |
| Antonyms: | broken, idle, malfunctioning, unfunctional |
| Main Entry: | use |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, service, treatment, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear*, wont, worth, applicability, capitalization, exercising, mobilization, relevance, serviceability, usability |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use, corrosion |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, damage, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, diminution, disappearance, employment, erosion, friction, loss, mileage, service, usefulness, utility, waste, wear and tear, impairment, inroads |
| Main Entry: | worth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | value, estimation associated with something |
| Synonyms: | account, aid, assistance, avail, benefit, caliber, class, consequence, cost, credit, dignity, equivalence, excellence, goodness, help, importance, mark, merit, moment, note, perfection, price, quality, rate, significance, stature, use, usefulness, utility, valuation, virtue, weight, desirability, meaningfulness, worthiness |
| Antonyms: | worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | feasibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | practicability |
| Synonyms: | usefulness, utility, expediency, feasibleness, workability |
| Main Entry: | versatility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flexibility |
| Synonyms: | adaptability, utility, ambidexterity, skillfulness, versatileness |
| Main Entry: | cheap |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inexpensive |
| Synonyms: | bargain, budget, buy, competitive, dime a dozen, economical, irregular, low-priced, moderate, nominal, reasonable, reduced, sale, standard, steal, utility, at a bargain, bargain-basement, bargain-counter, bought for a song, cheapo, cost next to nothing, cut-price, cut-rate, depreciated, easy on the pocketbook, half-priced, low tariff, low-cost, lowered, marked down, on sale, popularly priced, real buy, slashed, uncostly, undear, 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, aid, amenity, appliance, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, comfort, contribution, cooperation, decency, ease, enjoyment, facility, fitness, furtherance, help, life, luxury, means, ministry, promotion, relief, satisfaction, service, succor, suitability, support, use, utility, agreeableness, comforts, handiness, ministration, openness, opportuneness, receptiveness, serviceability, suitableness, time saver |
| Antonyms: | inconvenience, waste, inexpedience, inutility, unsuitability, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | expediency/expedience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | appropriateness; worth |
| Synonyms: | advantage, advisability, benefit, convenience, effectiveness, efficiency, fitness, helpfulness, opportunism, opportunity, order, policy, practicality, propriety, prudence, suitability, usefulness, utility, advantageousness, appositeness, aptness, desirability, judiciousness, meetness, pragmatism, profitability, profitableness, properness, propitiousness, rightness, utilitarianism |
| 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: | 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: | check, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop, blockage, counteraction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | practice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | routine, usual procedure |
| Synonyms: | convention, custom, fashion, form, habit, manner, method, mode, praxis, proceeding, process, rule, system, tradition, trick, usage, use, usefulness, utility, way, wont, convenance, habitude |
| Antonyms: | abstention, refrain |
| Main Entry: | service |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | account, advantage, appropriateness, assistance, avail, benefit, business, check, courtesy, dispensation, duty, employ, employment, favor, fitness, indulgence, kindness, labor, maintenance, office, overhaul, supply, use, usefulness, utility, value, work, applicability, ministration, relevance, serviceability, servicing |
| Antonyms: | damage, disservice, hurt, injury |
| Main Entry: | value |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, worth |
| Synonyms: | account, bearing, benefit, caliber, condition, connotation, consequence, content, denotation, distinction, drift, eminence, esteem, estimation, excellence, finish, force, goodness, grade, help, implication, import, importance, interpretation, mark, meaning, merit, power, preference, profit, purpose, quality, regard, sense, significance, state, stature, substance, superiority, use, usefulness, utility, valuation, desirability, marketability, repute, serviceableness |
| Antonyms: | detriment, disadvantage |
| Main Entry: | purpose |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use |
| Synonyms: | advantage, avail, benefit, duty, effect, function, gain, goal, good, mark, mission, object, objective, outcome, profit, result, return, target, utility |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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