Hypertext Webster Gateway: "useful"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Useful \Use"ful\, a.
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.
To what can I useful! --Milton.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
useful
adj 1: being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and
useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society"
[syn: {utile}] [ant: {useless}]
2: of great importance or use or service; "useful information";
"valuable advice" [syn: {valuable}, {of value}]
3: capable of being turned to use or account; "useful
applications of calculus"
4: having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn: {utilitarian}]
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.