utility
nounHow to pronounce utility:
Definition of utility:
- utility (noun):
- usefulness
- fitness for some purpose or worth to some end
- a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation.
Synonyms for utility:
advantageousness
avail
benefit
bus company
bus service
convenience
efficacy
electric company
fitness
gas company
gas service
light company
mileage
phone company
phone service
point
power company
power service
practicality
profit
public utility
public utility company
public-service corporation
service
service program
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Antonyms for utility:
blockage
carelessness
disadvantage
disutility
foolishness
handicap
hastiness
hindrance
imprudence
impulsiveness
inadvisability
inappropriateness
inconvenience
indiscretion
inefficiency
inexpedience
inexpediency
injudiciousness
injury
inutility
loss
misjudgement
misjudgment
obstruction
rashness
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- Galiena
- amateurish
- benefitted
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- predecessor
- ostensibly
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- discardable
- epitome
- culmination
- vermiculate
- notwithstanding
- macroscopic
- futility
- semiquaver
- describable
- insensible
- euphonious
- Dulcibella
- vitriolic
- rationalize
- perceptiveness
- malnutrition
- aquamarine
- opera hat
- Guatemala
- lucubration
- philology
- uncannily
- producer's goods
- overshadowed
- acquisition's
- observation
- Niagara
- controversy
- patriotic
- pitter-patter
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- enervating
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- midafternoon
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- contrariwise
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