Usually means: Beneficial for achieving a purpose.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word useful:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. useful: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. useful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. useful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. useful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. useful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Useful, useful: Wordnik
  7. useful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. useful: Wiktionary
  9. useful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. useful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. useful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. The useful, useful: Dictionary.com
  13. useful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Useful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. useful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. useful: Rhymezone
  17. Useful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. useful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. useful: Free Dictionary
  20. useful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. useful: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. useful: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. useful: Legal dictionary
  3. useful: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. useful: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. useful: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. useful: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. useful, useful: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. useful: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See usefuling as well.)

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adjective:  Having a practical or beneficial use.

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