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[ adjective ] ready for service or able to give long service
Examples "serviceable equipment" "heavy serviceable fabrics" Used in print (The Christian Science Monitor,...)The remainder of the cast fulfilled its assignments no more_than satisfactorily just as the old production and limited stage_direction proved only serviceable . (Edward E. Kelly, S.J., "Christian Unity in England"...)A century ago , Newman saw that liberalism ( what we now might call secularism ) would gradually but definitely make its mark on English_Protestantism , and that even high_Anglicanism would someday no_longer be a `` serviceable breakwater against doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own '' . Related terms unserviceable functional fixable maintained durable practical useful functional |
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[ adjective ] intended or able to serve a purpose without elaboration
Examples "serviceable low-heeled shoes"; Related terms |
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