Synonyms for utilities
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : yoo-til-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : yuˈtɪl ɪ ti |
Top 10 synonyms for utilities
Définition of utilities
Origin :- late 14c., "fact of being useful," from Old French utilite "usefulness" (late 13c.), earlier utilitet (12c.), from Latin utilitatem (nominative utilitas) "usefulness, serviceableness, profit," from utilis "usable," from uti (see use (v.)). As a shortened form of public utility it is recorded from 1930.
- noun serviceableness
- She is ballasted with utilities; not altogether with unusable pig-lead and kentledge.
- Extract from : « Moby Dick; or The Whale » by Herman Melville
- To compare these advantages with the virtues and utilities would be foolish.
- Extract from : « The Poet at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- It was with this world that the practical affairs and utilities of men were connected.
- Extract from : « Reconstruction in Philosophy » by John Dewey
- Teach her all the accomplishments, but none of the utilities of life.
- Extract from : « Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. I (of 4).--1841-1857 » by Charles L. Graves
- The tendency has been to limit all the utilities of a railroad to transportation.
- Extract from : « Letters from an Old Railway Official » by Charles DeLano Hine
- Thus, the values attached to all utilities are expressed in monetary terms.
- Extract from : « After the Rain » by Sam Vaknin
- But neither happiness nor the utilities that tend to promote it, possess it.
- Extract from : « Theoretical Ethics » by Milton Valentine
- We are surrounded by utilities, but we must stoop to appropriate them.
- Extract from : « Harmonies of Political Economy » by Frdric Bastiat
- Scriven explains traffic catastrophies and malfunctionings of utilities.
- Extract from : « The Brain » by Alexander Blade
- We want the life of the soul as much as that of the body; whence there are two utilities.
- Extract from : « Balzac » by Frederick Lawton
Antonyms for utilities
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