Serviceable vs Noteful - What's the difference?
serviceable | noteful |
Easy to service.
Repairable instead of disposable.
In condition for use.
*1719- , (w), (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...
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*: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.
Useful; serviceable.
*1867 , Henry Morley, English writers :
*1984 , Mark J. Gleason, The influence of Trevet on Boethian language and thought in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde :
*2012 , Andre Shaw, Andre/Drizzy: Health Fair, andre-shaw.blogspot.com/2012/04/health-fair.html:
As adjectives the difference between serviceable and noteful
is that serviceable is easy to service while noteful is useful; serviceable.serviceable
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* notfulAdjective
(en adjective)- [...] an introduction, 'after the statutes of our doctors,' to the theory of astrology, with tables of equations of houses, after the latitude of Oxford, and tables of dignities of planets, and other noteful things.
- The immediate irony, of course, is that Pandarus is associating his own misguided advice with harmonious music though Troilus, like the prisoner, is more in need of "noteful sciences" [...]
- I found the Health Fair to be exciting and to be very noteful to me and to others.