/ˈjuː.taɪl/
OriginFrom Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis.
- archaicUseful.
“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 ot”
- 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.”
Formsmore utile(comparative) · most utile(superlative) · utiles(plural)