Live and Useful

Live

Live adjective - Being in effective operation.
Usage example: didn't realize that the microphone was live and proceeded to make some rather indiscreet comments

Useful and live are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Useful" instead an adjective "Live".

Nearby Words: living, lived

Useful

Useful adjective - Capable of being put to use or account.

Live and useful are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Live" instead an adjective "Useful".

Nearby Words: use, useless, used, usefulness, usefully

Both words in one sentence

  • It's still a lot easier to live without one than it is to live without most of your other organs, but it does seem to serve a useful (if non-vital) purpose.
  • Comicbook / The Simpsons Right-Hand Attack Dog: Denied in one issue, where Burns demands this when an employee stops being useful to him, only to be reminded he's at the Power Plant, and the dogs live in his mansion.
  • Nasham is allowed to live because he's more useful as a tool for her to manipulate the Compact alive and she can easily ensure he will do what she wants by understanding his character and Compact MO.
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