Utile

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈjuːtʌɪl/

Origin

From Old French utile, from Latin Å«tilis.

Full definition of utile

Adjective

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 ....

Noun

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 9780838638996, 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)The ‘happiness utile’ does not exist, at least not yet.

Synonyms

• (unit of satisfaction) hedon, util

Related terms

• utility

Anagrams

• tuile