USEFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does usefully mean? 

• USEFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb USEFULLY has 1 sense:

1. in a useful manner

  Familiarity information: USEFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• USEFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a useful manner

Context example:

extra money could be usefully spent on this project

Antonym:

uselessly (in a useless manner)

Pertainym:

useful (being of use or service)

 Context examples 

He was like one under the propitious influence of a charm, from the moment of his being usefully employed; and if there were a happy man in the world, that Saturday night, it was the grateful creature who thought my aunt the most wonderful woman in existence, and me the most wonderful young man.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This illustrious person had very usefully employed his studies, in finding out effectual remedies for all diseases and corruptions to which the several kinds of public administration are subject, by the vices or infirmities of those who govern, as well as by the licentiousness of those who are to obey.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)