Useful vs Utile - What's the difference?
useful | utile |
Having a practical or beneficial use.
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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 useful and utile
is that useful is having a practical or beneficial use while utile is useful.As a noun utile is
a theoretical unit of measure of utility, for indicating a supposed quantity of satisfaction derived from an economic transaction.useful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
Usage notes
* Prepositions: useful'' is used in ''useful forSynonyms
* noteful * serviceable * utilitarianAntonyms
* unuseful * useless * harmfulutile
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.
