Etymology
From use + -ful.
Pronunciation
Adjective
useful (comparative more useful, superlative most useful)
- Having a practical or beneficial use.
- This tool is very useful. It makes doing this task a lot easier.
Usage notes
- Prepositions: useful is used in useful for <purpose>, useful for <person> and useful to <person>. The words useful to are also found in construction such as It is useful to do, in which to marks an infinitive rather than being a preposition.
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Translations
having a practical or beneficial use
- Afrikaans: geskikt (af)
- Albanian: dobishëm (sq)
- Arabic: مفيد (ar) (mufiid), نافع (ar) (naafi`)
- Asturian: útil (ast)
- Azeri: lazımlı (az)
- Bengali: (byabohar joggo)
- Bulgarian: полезен (bg) (polézen)
- Catalan: útil (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 有用 (cmn) (yǒuyòng), 實用 (cmn), 实用 (cmn) (shíyòng)
- Serbo-Croatian: upotrebljiv (sh)
- Czech: užitečný (cs) m
- Danish: nyttig (da)
- Dutch: nuttig (nl), bruikbaar (nl), dienstig (nl)
- Esperanto: utila (eo)
- Estonian: kasulik (et)
- Faroese: nýttigur (fo)
- Finnish: hyödyllinen (fi), käytännöllinen (fi)
- French: utile (fr)
- Galician: útil (gl)
- Georgian: სასარგებლო (ka) (sasargeblo)
- German: nützlich (de)
- Greek: χρήσιμος (el) (khrēsimos)
- Haitian Creole: itil
- Hebrew: שִׁמּוּשִׁי (he) (šimuši)
- Hindi: upayogi (hi)
- Hungarian: hasznos (hu)
- Icelandic: gagnlegur (is)
- Indonesian: berguna (id)
- Irish: úsáideach (ga)
- Italian: utile (it)
- Japanese: 有用 (ja) (ゆうよう, yūyō), 便利 (ja) (べんり, benri), (verb) 役に立つ (ja) (やくにたつ, yaku ni tatsu)
- Korean: 쓸모있다 (ko) (sseulmo-issda), 유용하다 (ko) (有用-, yuyong-hada)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: بهسوود (ku) (basood), بهکهڵک (ku) (bakaLk), به دهسد (ku) (badasd)
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