serviceable
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈsɜrvɪsəbl/
- The laptop is serviceable for basic tasks like browsing the internet and writing documents.
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Watch on YouTubeA Finder can always find work, and so if you're not serviceable, here's the the key idea.
- A Finder can always find work, and so if you're not serviceable, here's the the key idea.
- Lamborghini, yeah, Aventadors, obviously, a lot of a lot of it is Italian, but they're again serviceable.
Examples
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A wooden rocking chair was in one corner, a worn but still-serviceable sofa next to the west window.
Fiction book (1990) -
Happily, in two of them, history and philosophy, there was literature serviceable to the task.
Academic text (1991) -
We shall try to make it as serviceable as we can.
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Please check your area for any serviceable manufacturing points.
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I found the system very serviceable for teaching two sections of advanced French grammar.
Academic text (1998) -
Her memory for both recent and remote events was serviceable but selective.
Academic text (2000) -
But if you want to build faster, this is totally serviceable in building your model kits.
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Thus, though the presentation is largely atheoretical, it may yet prove serviceable as a hypothesis-generating exercise.
Academic text (1998) -
Recent history can thus stimulate the difficult task of developing serviceable standards and guidelines, at least within particular disciplines and fields.
Academic text (2004) -
The girl at the cash register supplied a black folding umbrella, flimsy but serviceable.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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2.3
Fit for a purpose and works well
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4.6
A machine or system that works and can be used
Good enough to do its job
Can be used for a practical purpose
Antonyms
How Useful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word serviceable comes from service ('help' or 'use') and the ending -able ('can be'). So something serviceable 'can serve' you or 'does the job' even if it is not perfect.