Utility

Quick meaning: Utility is a noun meaning The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.

Meaning

The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.

More Meanings

1. Something that is useful.
2. (economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
3. (philosophy) Well-being, satisfaction, pleasure, or happiness.
4. (business, finance, by extension) A natural or legal monopoly distributer of such a utility; or, the securities of such a provider.
5. (computing) A software program other than a game; one that is useful or creative rather than merely entertaining.
6. (business) A commodity or service provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage.
7. (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.

Example Sentences

a graphics utility; a music utility

Holonyms: app, application, program

I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.

"The profession has its utility, but I should be sorry to see any friend of mine belonging to it."

Word Forms

• utilities

Synonyms for utility

Depending on context, synonyms include value, usefulness, advantages, benefit, return, merits.

Antonyms for utility

Common opposites include disutility, inutility, uselessness, unusefulness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include usefulness, substitute, secondary, inferior, useful, usability.

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