different between nonserviceable vs serviceable

English

From Middle English servisable, from Old French servisable, from servise; surface analysis service +? -able.

serviceable (comparative more serviceable, superlative most serviceable)

Easy to service.
Repairable instead of disposable.
In condition for use; usable, functional.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, 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...
- 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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