utile

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French utile, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ūtilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.taɪl/

Adjective

utile (comparative more utile, superlative most utile)

1. (now rare) Useful.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, 2011 Penguin edition, p. 16:

     technologists (the so-called Eggheads) all over the world were trying to make publicly utile and commercially rewarding the extremely elaborate and still very expensive, hydrodynamic telephones and other miserable gadgets […]

Noun

utile (plural utiles)

1. (economics) A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.
   • 2002, Louis Groarke, The Good Rebel: Understanding Freedom and Morality, →ISBN, p. 29 (Google preview):

     Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most utiles.

   • 2006, "Economic Roundup Autumn 2006," www.treasury.gov.au (Australian Government Treasury) (retrieved 20 Oct 2013):

     [T]he ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.

Synonyms

• (unit of satisfaction): hedon, util

Related terms

• utility

Anagrams

• Lieut, Lieut., tuile

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Esperanto

Etymology

utila +‎ -e

Adverb

utile

1. usefully

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French

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin ūtilis. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.til/

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• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

utile (plural utiles)

1. useful

Antonyms

• inutile

Related terms

• outil

Further reading

• “utile”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• tuile

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin utilis

Pronunciation

• ùtile
• IPA^(key): /ˈutile/
• Rhymes: -utile

Adjective

1. useful

Synonyms

• utilizzabile

Antonyms

• inutile

Related terms

• usare
• utilità
• utilitario
• utilizzare
• utilmente

Anagrams

• ulite

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) ūtile

1. nominative neuter singular of ūtilis
2. accusative neuter singular of ūtilis
3. vocative neuter singular of ūtilis

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• util (masculine only)

Adjective

utile m or f (plural utiles)

1. useful

Antonyms

• inutile

Descendants

• utile

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Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈtile/

Adjective

utile

1. nominative feminine plural of util
2. accusative feminine plural of util
3. nominative neuter plural of util
4. accusative neuter plural of util