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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