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Serviceable vs Powerful - What's the difference?

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Serviceable is a related term of powerful.


As adjectives the difference between serviceable and powerful

is that serviceable is easy to service while powerful is having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.

serviceable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

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    powerful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * powerfull * powreful * powrefull

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Having, or capable of exerting power, potency or influence.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • The powerful grace that lies / In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=19 citation , passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help, and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
  • (mining) Large; capacious; said of veins of ore.

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