utile \YOO-til, adjective:

Useful.

They have been accredited variously to the respective signs of the Zodiac, but to the end that resultant opinions have failed to be utile value.
— John Hazelrigg,Astrosophic Principles And Astrosophic Tractates
It was located in an industrial warehouse but he had tricked it out smartly. It was altogether utile but not precisely cozy.
— Eve Howard,Shadow Lane Volume 8

Utile comes directly from the French word of the same spelling which also means “useful.” It entered English in the late 1400s.


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