Adjective: utile
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more utile |
| Superlative | most utile |
Sample Sentences
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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 […] [1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 16:]
Adjectives inflected like utile
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle French utile, from Old French utele, from Latin ūtilis. See: Latin Adjectives '
ūtilis'.