utilitarian
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6.3
- adjective
- /ˌjuːtɪlɪˈtɛriən/
- They're both utilitarian and just cool.
- utilitarian purposes
- utilitarian approach
- utilitarian value
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Watch on YouTubeIf you feel that way, that's a utilitarian choice.
- If you feel that way, that's a utilitarian choice.
- And the ship is not just a utilitarian construction, right?
- They're both utilitarian and just cool.
- And so emerges these sort of great utilitarian buildings.
- And we've had this comment before about cars seen, you know, in utilitarian terms.
- Just the utilitarian part of it.
- If not directly useful, he wanted the Peacock tail to be a badge of utilitarian usefulness in some sense.
- So, you know, part, you never know where blue sky thinking that's not aimed at any utilitarian advantage.
- But back then, trucks were utilitarian basic cars and making a luxury SUV out of it was a harder.
- Now, with that said, you can add as many luxury features as you want, but it's hard to disguise this vehicle's true utilitarian routes.
Examples
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In colonial times, gardens were utilitarian.
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Of course it looks cool, it seems futuristic, but strictly from a utilitarian standpoint, is that really that useful?
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And the ship is not just a utilitarian construction, right?
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What if, for example, the last in line... ...were to make the utilitarian choice....
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It's just a sort of utilitarian efficiency thing.
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Well, it's utilitarian, I'll say that.
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The office was elegant and expensive, a marked contrast to the utilitarian austerity of the fuel-station buildings outside.
Fiction book (2000) -
Lando took the woman's hand, noting the short, utilitarian nails and the firm grip.
Fiction book (1991) -
The benches in Thirtieth Street Station are solid, plain, utilitarian, like the pews in St. Stanislaus.
Fiction book (1999) -
The architect created a series of utilitarian buildings that prioritized functionality over aesthetics.
Synonyms
57
3.7
Useful and practical rather than decorative
Designed to be practical and useful rather than decorative
Antonyms
How Practical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Utilitarian comes from the word utility, which means 'usefulness'. So a utilitarian design is made to be useful or practical rather than to look pretty.