utilitarian
adjective
noun
Origin of utilitarian
Synonyms for utilitarian
Related Words for utilitarian
sensible, functional, pragmatic, down-to-earth, effective, efficient, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, realistic, serviceable, useful, commonsensical, pragmatical, unromantic, unidealisticExamples from the Web for utilitarian
Contemporary Examples of utilitarian
Is that a utilitarian approach—that you need to understand how institutions have changed to understand the way they are?
Everything is meant to be utilitarian and efficient, at the expense of relaxation or comfort.
The problem is that professional intelligence is mechanical and functional – utilitarian.
The available options were utilitarian and only came in a few colors.
With "Jim and the Indians," as the above scenario is known, the utilitarian calculus is clear: save 19 lives.
Historical Examples of utilitarian
We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing.
De ProfundisOscar Wilde
But Shelley's world was the world of the utilitarian Godwin and the mathematical Condorcet.
Shelley, Godwin and Their CircleH. N. Brailsford
In the most commercial and utilitarian states of society the power of ideas remains.
The RepublicPlato
The Utilitarian finds a place in his system for this virtue and for every other.'
PhilebusPlato
Yet of this interval the utilitarian theory takes no cognizance.
PhilebusPlato