UTILITARIAN


Meaning of UTILITARIAN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

approach

Set up under his direction, the Forest Service encouraged a utilitarian approach to the use of public timberlands and watersheds.

But Boston has also taken a utilitarian approach , often going where opportunity knocks in the search for partners.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

utilitarian clothes

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Along with good light and utilitarian spaces, Chelsea offers comparatively cheap real estate.

And the only reason why evolution would bind relationships together is if they served a utilitarian purpose.

My father was a carpenter and held a passionate but essentially utilitarian belief in education.

Their utilitarian contribution to our welfare should not, in other words, be our criterion as to whether they survive or not.

They were sturdy and wooden; quite beautiful in their uncluttered, utilitarian lines.

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