Utility vs Advantageous - What's the difference?
utility | advantageous | Synonyms |
The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
Something that is useful.
(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
(business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
Being of advantage, beneficial
* 1900 , Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim Chapter 32
*:Jim took up an advantageous position and shepherded them out in a bunch through the doorway.
Utility is a synonym of advantageous.
As a noun utility
is the state or condition of being useful; usefulness.As an adjective advantageous is
being of advantage, beneficial.utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.