serviceable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: serv=ice=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

serviceable, a. 

•  Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.  [1913 Webster]

  "I know thee well, a serviceable villain."  [1913 Webster]
•  Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.  [1913 Webster]

  "Courteous he was, lowly, and servysable."  [1913 Webster]

  "Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order serviceable."  [1913 Webster]

  "Seeing her so sweet and serviceable."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

serviceable, adj.
1 useful or usable.
2 able to render service.
3 durable; capable of withstanding difficult conditions.
4 suited for ordinary use rather than ornament.

Derivative

serviceability n. serviceableness n. serviceably adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF servisable (as SERVICE(1))

THESAURUS

serviceable

advantageous, agential, agentival, agentive, aidful, aiding, appropriate, assisting, banausic, beneficial, commodious, conducive, constructive, contributory, durable, employable, expedient, facilitating, favoring, fitting, forwarding, functional, functioning, furthersome, good for, handy, helpful, instrumental, intermediary, long-lasting, mediating, mediatorial, ministerial, ministering, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, operating, operative, positive, practicable, practical, pragmatical, profitable, promoting, proper, remedial, salutary, subservient, therapeutic, tough, usable, useful, utilitarian, workable, working

ROGET THESAURUS

serviceable

Utility

N utility, usefulness, efficacy, efficiency, adequacy, service, use, stead, avail, help, applicability, subservience, function, value, worth, money's worth, productiveness, cui bono, utilization, step in the right direction, common weal, commonwealth public good, public interest, utilitarianism, useful, of use, serviceable, proficuous, good for, subservient, conducive, subsidiary, advantageous, profitable, gainful, remunerative, worth one's salt, valuable, prolific, adequate, efficient, efficacious, effective, effectual, expedient, applicable, available, ready, handy, at hand, tangible, commodious, adaptable, of all work, usefully, pro bono publico.

Goodness

N goodness, excellence, merit, virtue, value, worth, price, super-excellence, supereminence, superiority, perfection, coup de maitre, masterpiece, chef d'ouvre, prime, flower, cream, elite, pick, A, nonesuch, nonpareil, creme de la creme, flower of the flock, cock of the roost, salt of the earth, champion, prodigy, tidbit, gem, gem of the first water, bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure, good thing, rara avis, one in a thousand, beneficence, good man, harmless, hurtless, unobnoxious, innocuous, innocent, inoffensive, beneficial, valuable, of value, serviceable, advantageous, edifying, profitable, salutary, favorable, propitious fair, good, good as gold, excellent, better, superior, above par, nice, fine, genuine, best, choice, select, picked, elect, recherche, rare, priceless, unparagoned, unparalleled, superlatively, good, bully, crackajack, giltedged, superfine, superexcellent, of the first water, first-rate, first-class, high- wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal, standard, inimitable, admirable, estimable, praiseworthy, pleasing, couleur de rose, precious, of great price, costly, worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye, priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye, tolerable, up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable, satisfactory, tidy, in good condition, in fair condition, fresh, sound, beneficially, well, Jewels five words long, long may such goodness live!, the luxury of doing good.