serviceable

serviceable

English

Etymology

From Old French servisable, from servise.

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...

   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., 55 Fifth Avenue, [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0091:

     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.

Synonyms

• useful
• helpful

Translations

easy to service

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: huoltoystävällinen, helppohuoltoinen French: please add this translation if you can

German: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: lako namiriv Spanish: please add this translation if you can

repairable instead of disposable

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: käyttökelpoinen (fi) French: réparable (fr) m or f

German: please add this translation if you can Serbo-Croatian: popravljiv (sh) Spanish: please add this translation if you can

in condition for use

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: käyttökelpoinen (fi) French: prêt à l'emploi German: please add this translation if you can

Hungarian: üzemképes (hu) Polish: sprawny (pl) m, efektywny (pl) m Serbo-Croatian: upotrebljiv (sh) Spanish: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• receivables