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Webster 1913 Edition


Serviceable

Serv′ice-a-ble

,
Adj.
1.
Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous.
Serviceable to religion and learning”.
Atterbury.
Serviceable tools.”
Macaulay.
I know thee well, a
serviceable
villain.
Shakespeare
2.
Prepared for rendering service; capable of, or fit for, the performance of duty; hence, active; diligent.
Courteous he was, lowly, and
servysable
.
Chaucer.
Bright-hearnessed angels sit in order
serviceable
.
Milton.
Seeing her so sweet and
serviceable
.
Tennnyson.
Serv′ice-a-ble-ness
,
Noun.
Serv′ice-a-bly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Serviceable

SERV'ICEABLE

,
Adj.
1. That does service; that promotes happiness, interest, advantage or any good; useful; beneficial; advantageous. Rulers may be very serviceable to religion by their example. The attentions of my friends were very serviceable to me when abroad. Rain and manure are serviceable to land.
2. Active; diligent; officious.
I know thee well, a serviceable villain. Shak. [Unusual.]

Definition 2024


serviceable

serviceable

English

Adjective

serviceable (comparative more serviceable, superlative most serviceable)

  1. Easy to service.
  2. Repairable instead of disposable.
  3. In condition for use.
    • 1719-, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
      I employed myself in making, as well as I could, a great many baskets, both to carry earth or to carry or lay up anything, as I had occasion; and though I did not finish them very handsomely, yet I made them sufficiently serviceable for my purpose...
    • 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter II:
      There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

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