most useful

ADJECTIVE

beneficial, valuable

Synonyms

STRONGEST

advantageous appropriate convenient effective favorable fruitful good handy helpful practical pragmatic profitable proper suitable

STRONG

utile

WEAK

all-purpose applied brave commodious fit functional instrumental meet of assistance of service of use practicable propitious purposive salutary serviceable subsidiary suited toward

Antonyms

STRONGEST

awkward bad disadvantageous disagreeable harmful hurtful impotent improper inappropriate incapable inconvenient injurious misbehaving unacceptable unfitting unhandy unhelpful unproductive unskilled unsuitable unsuited useless worthless

WEAK

unusable unvaluable

Example Sentences

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First proposed within the last decade, these materials may combine some of the most useful characteristics of both ferromagnets and antiferromagnets, potentially opening the door to faster, more energy-efficient electronics.

From Science Daily • Jun. 23, 2026

One of the most useful investing exercises is revisiting prior stock ideas to assess how they actually performed after the initial thesis was laid out.

From Barron's • Jun. 17, 2026

The same shortage is a windfall for the companies on the other side of the wall, and the contrast is the most useful map an investor has.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026

What proved to be most useful to you?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

He may do this methodically, or he may do it unconsciously by preserving the individuals most useful to him at the time, without any thought of altering the breed....

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan