utile

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

utile (comparative more utile, superlative most utile)

  1. (now rare) Useful.
    Antonyms: inutile (obsolete), see more at unuseful
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 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, page 29:
      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):
      he ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.

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Esperanto

Etymology

utila +‎ -e

Adverb

utile

  1. usefully

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French utile, borrowed from Latin ūtilis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /y.til/
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  • Rhymes: -il

Adjective

utile (plural utiles)

  1. useful
    Antonym: inutile

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Italian

Etymology

Probably borrowed from Latin ūtilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

utile (plural utili, superlative utilissimo)

  1. useful
    Synonym: utilizzabile
    Antonym: inutile

Further reading

  • utile in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

Adjective

ūtile

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular of ūtilis

Adverb

ūtile (comparative ūtilius, superlative ūtillimē)

  1. usefully
    Synonym: ūtiliter

Middle French

Alternative forms

  • util (masculine only)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin utilis.

Adjective

utile m or f (plural utiles)

  1. useful

Antonyms

Descendants

  • French: utile

Romanian

Pronunciation

Adjective

utile

  1. nominative/accusative feminine/neuter plural of util
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