Definition of Useful

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Useful

Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.

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Useful Quotations

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
Oscar Wilde

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
Jonathan Swift

Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle

Useful Translations

useful in Danish is nyttig
useful in Dutch is bevorderlijk, dienstig, nuttig
useful in Hungarian is hasznos
useful in Italian is utile
useful in Latin is utilis

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