- Beneficial
- Effective
- Functional, of service
- Handy
- Having a houseful, losing half an hour would be handy
- Helpful when you spilled fuels
- Of good effect
- Businesslike
- Common sense
- Down-to-earth, sensible
- Hardheaded
- Matter-of-fact, realistic
- Practical
- Realistic
- Practical.
- Artful; deceitful; skillful.