• the state of being useful, profitable, or beneficial

Synonyms: usefulness, use, advantage, benefit, value, help, helpfulness, profitability, convenience, practicality, effectiveness, efficacy, avail, service, serviceableness, advantageousness

• an organization supplying the community with electricity, gas, water, or sewerage

• a utility program

• a utility vehicle

• useful, especially through being able to perform several functions

Synonyms: practical, functional, serviceable, useful, sensible, effective, efficient, (suited) to the purpose, pragmatic, realistic, utility, working, workaday, handy, neat, ordinary, down-to-earth

• functional rather than attractive