utile

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
5
Words With Friends
7
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈjuː.taɪl/ (UK)

Definition of utile

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  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 […]”
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adj

  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 […]”

noun

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

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Etymology

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

Anagrams of utile

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