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Utile

//ˈjuː.taɪl// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Useful. archaic

    "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 […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    being of use or service wordnet
Noun
  1. 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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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