utile

Etymology

From Old French utile, from Latin ūtilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) 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.

Anagrams

• tuile

Etymology

utila +‎ -e

Adverb

utile

1. usefully

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

Further reading

• “utile” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tuile

Etymology

Latin utilis

Pronunciation

• ùtile
• IPA^(key): /ˈutile/

Adjective

utile (masculine and feminine plural utili)

1. useful

Anagrams

• ulite

Adjective

ūtile

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

Alternative forms

• util (masculine only)

Adjective

utile m, f (plural utiles)

1. useful

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uˈtile/

Adjective

utile

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