serviceable

Speech parts

1. serviceable - Adjective

2. serviceable - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.

Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

useful functional usable helpful good available enough working operating handy assistive effective practical appropriate suitable

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Antonyms

unserviceable down shot broken bad harmful

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Phrases with the word

serviceable life non-serviceable less serviceable non-serviceable region

Anagrams

receivables

Examples

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly. Joseph Conrad

The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser. Vladimir Nabokov

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit. Oscar Wilde

Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing. American Proverb

Close letter words and terms

service-incurred service-oriented architecture serviceability serviceable life serviceableness serviceably