Reverse Dictionary: USEFUL

ADJECTIVES
► APTISH skilful, useful, accurate → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► BEHOOVEFUL useful, of use; advantageous, expedient; needful, necessary, due → 1382 arch.
► BEHOVABLE useful, profitable, advantageous → c1460 obs.
► BEHOVEFUL advantageous, useful, profitable; needful, necessary, due → 1382 arch.
► BEHOVELY useful, profitable; needful, necessary → c950 obs.
► BEHOVESOME useful, of service → c1330 obs.
► BEHOVING useful, needful, appropriate → c1175 obs.
► GAIN of things: available, handy, useful, convenient → a1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► HANDY AS A GIMLET quick, smart, useful → 1993 Amer. dial.
► HANDY AS A POCKET IN A SHIRT very useful → 1867 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► HENDY useful → c1275 obs.
► IDLE handy, useful → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► LUCKY of a person: useful, handy → 1703 obs.
► MENSEFUL useful → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► NUT useful, advantageous, helpful → c1250 obs.
► OPPORTUNE advantageous, serviceable, useful → 1432-50 obs.
► PERFECTABLE beneficial, useful; profitable → 1450 obs.
► PROFICUOUS profitable, advantageous, beneficial, useful → 1622 obs.
► TIDY good, excellent, satisfactory, useful; of good character or ability; worthy, brave; able, skilful → c1350 obs.
► UTIBLE that may be used; useful, serviceable → 1623 obs.
► UTILIOUS useful → 1651 obs.

ADVERBS
► BEHOVABLY usefully, profitably, advantageously, advisably → 1512 obs.
► BEHOVEFULLY usefully, profitably, duly; necessarily → 1443 obs.
► BEHOVEFULNESS usefulness, use → 1592 obs.
► BEHOVELY usefully, needfully, necessarily → c1430 obs.
► BEHOVINGLY usefully, appropriately → 1556 obs.

NOUNS
► ACE something useful or important → 1950s sl.
► AIRSICK PIGEON symbol of usefulness, as in ‘you’re as much use as an airsick pigeon’ → Brit. sl.
► NIFTY something useful or convenient → 1939 sl.

NOUNS, PERSON
► JACK AT A PINCH a useful man, one who is ready in an emergency; one who is made useful on occasion by ignored at other times → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► RIGHT-HAND a person who is particularly useful or important to another, or upon whom one relies; a chief assistant, an indispensable helper → 1538

VERBS
► DOW to be of use or profit to a person → OE obs.
► GAIN to be suitable, useful or advantageous; to avail, to help; to serve, to suffice → c1200 obs.
► GET YOUR A INTO G to stop idling; to apply yourself into an activity; to start doing something useful → 2002 NZ sl.
► VAIL to be of use, advantage, or benefit to; to aid, assist, or help → a1300 obs.