of use

ADJECTIVE

useful

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 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

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Since the pandemic, pools across the country have been closing due to rising costs and lack of use which has been called a 'terrible investment' by Adam Goymer, Head of National Water Safety Manager.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

On several occasions, the unit powered down after roughly four hours of use.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2026

City Department of Buildings and Safety proposed work for “change of use from commercial to retail, 2-story” at the property.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2026

Sixth Wall is actively accepting requests for authorized character access across a range of use cases including interactive storytelling, conversational games and connected physical products and robotics.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

They climbed a steep trail where niches for toes and fingers had been worn into the yellow sandrock after centuries of use.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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