Adequate vs Utile - What's the difference?
adequate | utile |
Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition lawfully and physically sufficient.
* De Quincey
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Empty House
(obsolete) To equalize; to make adequate.
(obsolete) To equal.
Useful.
* 1969 , , Ada or Ardor , 2011 Penguin edition, p. 16:
(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,
* 2006 , "
As adjectives the difference between adequate and utile
is that adequate is while utile is useful.As a noun utile is
(economics) a theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.adequate
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Adjective
(en adjective)- Ireland had no adequate champion.
- All day, as I drove upon my round, I turned over the case in my mind and found no explanation which appeared to me to be adequate .
Antonyms
* inadequateVerb
(adequat)- (Fotherby)
- It [is] an impossibility for any creature to adequate God in his eternity. — Shelford.
utile
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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
(en noun)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 .
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.