BANAUSIC


Meaning of BANAUSIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ bə-ˈnȯ-sik, -zik ]

adjective

Etymology: Greek banausikos of an artisan, nonintellectual, vulgar, from banausos artisan

Date: 1845

: relating to or concerned with earning a living — used pejoratively

contempt for the banausic occupations — T. S. Eliot

also : utilitarian , practical

such mundane and banausic considerations as comfort and durability — G. B. Boyer

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.