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utile

  • /ˈjuː.taɪl/ UK

Rhymes with -uːtaɪl

Where it comes from

From Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis.

adjective more utile · most utile

  1. archaic Useful. 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 […]

    Opposite: inutile, see more at unuseful

noun utiles

  1. A theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction. Rational agents always maximize the number of utiles procured; that is, they will always choose those outcomes which promise to produce the most utiles.

    Similar: hedon, util

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@misc{utile_2026,
  title = {utile},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/utile},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}