Advantageous; profitable; beneficial, beneficent.

Profitable, advantageous.

Useful.

Advantageous, profitable.

That yields advantage or benefit; useful, valuable. Formerly also: †effective as a remedy (obsolete).

Profitable, advantageous, expedient, helpful, efficacious. Obsolete.

Of a thing: of value; valuable, useful. In later use Scottish and U.S. (in African-American usage, in the areas of South Carolina and Georgia where…

Advantageous, expedient, helpful. Obsolete.

Useful, of use; advantageous, expedient; needful, necessary, due.

figurative. Productive of ‘fruits’ or results; advantageous, beneficial, profitable.

Productive of good results; beneficial, profitable, remunerative. Now only of actions, qualities, or the like; formerly also of concrete things.

Of avail, advantage, or benefit; availing, advantageous, beneficial, profitable, etc.; effectual… Const. for, to (unto), or with infinitive.

= availing, adj.

Advantageous, profitable; of beneficial efficiency.

Advantageous, beneficial; profitable. Obsolete.

Advantageous, beneficial; = commodious, adj. 1.

Of advantage; serviceable, beneficial, profitable (to, unto). archaic. (The last quotation passes into 3a.)

Useful, profitable, advantageous; incumbent.

Providing or conferring advantage; profitable, beneficial; opportune, favourable. Without construction.

Profitable.

Of benefit; advantageous, serviceable, profitable.

Tending to advantage; profitable; advantageous.

figurative, esp. Promoting moral or spiritual health.

Productive of gain or profit; profitable, advantageous. Now rare except as in 1b.

Advantageous, profitable.

Bringing advantage or gain.

(a) Profitable, advantageous. (b) Of the nature of gain.

Helpful, serviceable, advantageous. Obsolete.

Advantageous, serviceable; = conducible, adj. 2.

Providing or conferring advantage; profitable, beneficial; opportune, favourable. With to, for, †unto (the person or thing receiving the advantage).

Of service; useful, advantageous, profitable.

Of much avail, of advantage; serviceable, profitable. (A good word, taking up the earlier sense of available, adj.)

Conducive to the desired end; advantageous, expedient, serviceable, beneficial.

Probably a typographical error for commodious, adj.

That conduces to the end in view; profitable, serviceable, beneficial; = conducible, adj. 2. (See conduce, v. 6.) Obsolete.

Conducive; helpful, profitable, subservient.

Profitable; beneficial, useful.

Advantageous, profitable.

Doing good, performing kind deeds, characterized by beneficence. (Beneficial was previously used in this sense.) of things.

Advantageous, serviceable, beneficial; = conducible, adj. 2. Obsolete. rare.

Of or pertaining to a benefactor; conferring a benefit; beneficial.

transferred. Of things: Exerting a good or kindly influence; favourable, beneficial, salutary.

Conducive to healing; curative.

Of a kind by which one benefits or profits. rare.