Living and Useful

Living

Living adjective - Being in effective operation.
Usage example: a living culture that has survived a number of foreign invasions

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

Nearby Words: live, lived, livable

Useful

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

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

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

Mutual synonyms

Both words in one sentence

  • Literature / Shadow Ops Shame If Something Happened: Britton is given a look at the only other living portomancer, Billy, who was "uncooperative" but deemed useful.
  • Shotguns Are Just Better Basically anything in the Zombie Apocalypse genre, shotguns will be incredibly useful against the living dead.
  • Video Game / Grand Theft Auto V The audio from the microphone chat can be completely muted, which is very useful if you don't want to hear 12-year-olds and living room background noise constantly.
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