utility

1. 1.

   used of beef; usable but inferior

   Synonymsutility-grade

   Similarinferior
2. 2.

   capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team

   “a utility infielder”

   Synonymssubstitute

   Similarsecondary

Other forms of utility

plural

utilities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about utility

What does utility mean?

utility means "a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in utility?

utility has 4 syllables: u-til-i-ty. The stress falls on "til". In IPA it is /juˈtɪləti/.

What is another word for utility?

Close synonyms include public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation, usefulness, utility program. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of utility?

The recorded antonyms are inutility.

Is utility a common word?

utility is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with utility?

5 words rhyme with utility. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.