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useful
adj
    1. Able to be used advantageously; serving a helpful purpose; able to be put to various purposes.
      Thesaurus: handy, helpful, serviceable, advantageous, practical, valuable, productive, beneficial, effective, worthwhile, convenient, fruitful; Antonym: inefficient.
    2. colloq
      Skilled or proficient.
      Example: Booth put in a useful performance for Aberdeen
Derivative: usefully
adverb
    Derivative: usefulness
    noun
      Idiom: come in useful
        To prove to be useful.
      Etymology: 16c.



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