useful

1. Being of use or service (synset 302505612)
   "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"
   also:

   • effective, effectual, efficacious - producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect
   • expedient - serving to promote your interest
   • helpful - providing assistance or serving a useful function
   • profitable - yielding material gain or profit
   • serviceable - ready for service or able to give long service
   tells us about: usefulness, utility - the quality of being of practical use
   similar to:

   • handy - useful and convenient
   • multipurpose - having multiple uses
   • reclaimable, recyclable, reusable - capable of being used again
   • serviceable - capable of being put to good use
   • usable, useable - capable of being put to use
   • utilitarian - having utility often to the exclusion of values
   • utilizable - capable of being put to a profitable or practical use
   same as: utile
2. Having a useful function (synset 301094513)
   "utilitarian steel tables"
   similar to: functional - designed for or capable of a particular function or use
   same as: utilitarian

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