- The quality or state of being useful; usefulness;
production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the
utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility
of medicines. - Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic
value. See Note under Value, 2. - Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the
greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism.
- Cost-effectiveness - Merit - Value - To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the
phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb
is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative.
Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases. - Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. - Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to
be exchanged for. - Deserving of; -- in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a
good sense.