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US
/juˌtɪɫəˈtɛɹiən/
]
[ UK /jˌuːtɪlɪtˈeəɹiən/ ]
[ UK /jˌuːtɪlɪtˈeəɹiən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having a useful function
utilitarian steel tables -
having utility often to the exclusion of values
plain utilitarian kitchenware
NOUN
- someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility
How To Use utilitarian In A Sentence
- Utilitarian dressers are likely to have bought their garb from British Home Stores and the Co-operative Society.
- Utilitarianism in Victorian England was often misconstructed as essentially anti-art, indeed as the doctrine of cultural philistines.
- This utilitarian approach to law is coupled with a general lack of enforcement in the traditional system.
- While both deontologists and rule - utilitarians are rule-followers, deontology explicitly stresses duty and intention rather than outcome, whereas the ultimate focus of rule-utilitarianism is on consequences.
- Municipal pride, manifested by artistic embellishment without utilitarian purpose, shone out from them.
- Vintage chic used to be all about peeling paint and utilitarian ticking. Times, Sunday Times
- BRINKLEY: The one thing that I think transcends all the other things they have in common between FDR and Ronald Reagan is both of them distained utilitarianism in guise. CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2007
- Now both men and women cook, and the kitchen is no longer just a utilitarian room.
- If you take a utilitarian view, then you can at least analyze it, and are forced to show thework. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Gov. Perry Covering Up the Execution of an Innocent Man?
- Inside, while you don't get the style or flair of a Range Rover, you do get a sense of utilitarian toughness.