utile

From Old French utile, from Latin ūtilis.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈjuː.taɪl/

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 […]

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.

• (unit of satisfaction): hedon, util

• utility

• tuile

utila +‎ -e

utile

1. usefully

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

• IPA^(key): /y.til/

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• Rhymes: -il

utile (plural utiles)

1. useful

• inutile

• outil

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

• tuile

Latin utilis

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

utile (masculine and feminine plural utili)

1. useful

• utilizzabile

• inutile

• usare
• utilità
• utilitario
• utilizzare
• utilmente

• ulite

ūtile

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

• util (masculine only)

utile m or f (plural utiles)

1. useful

• inutile

• utile

• IPA^(key): /uˈtile/

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