useful
adjective
being of use or service; serving some purpose; advantageous, helpful, or of good effect.
usefully
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a word derived from
useful.
Example Sentences
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Coroner Mary Hassell said he suffered a desaturation and respiratory arrest on 3 November 2024 which went unnoticed for about 30 minutes because the alarm's volume had been turned "too low to be usefully audible".
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
“His mind was, from what I could see, largely undisciplined, which is how he could make these connections so unexpectedly and usefully, but not always usefully,” Crocker said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
"However, it has not been known whether the physics of active matter can be applied usefully in the quantum regime. We wanted to fill in that gap."
From Science Daily ● Apr. 26, 2024
Parisi is far more lively when talking about how science imperfectly, but usefully, models reality.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2023
The geographic boundaries of the political/social spheres that could usefully be grouped as “Europe” or “China” fluctuated over the centuries.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
