Crossword-Solution: UTILITARIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Utilitarian | a. | Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; /iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art. |
| Utilitarian | a. | Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society. |
| Utilitarian | n. | One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “UTILITARIAN”
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| someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility | 1 answer |
| an advocate or adherent of utilitarianism | 1 answer |
| Like happiness-maximizing ethics (or sturdy kitchenware) | 1 answer |
| pragmatic | 10 answers |
| utilised | 13 answers |
| practicable | 15 answers |
| utile | 16 answers |
| humanitarian | 18 answers |
| Employed | 22 answers |
| Good Samaritan | 27 answers |
| gainful | 29 answers |
| workable | 33 answers |
| materiality | 34 answers |
| useable | 36 answers |
| applied | 49 answers |
| aiding | 49 answers |
| Functional | 53 answers |
| Opportune | 53 answers |
| Effectual | 58 answers |
| Valid | 58 answers |
| Valuable | 60 answers |
| Realistic | 61 answers |
| Worn | 62 answers |
| Used | 63 answers |
| Practical | 76 answers |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with UTILITARIAN (5)
Did you ever hear about the learned Herr Professor who regarded unnecessary adornment with contempt and favoured sensible, utilitarian clothes for women? His wife, who was an obliging creature, adopted 'dress reform.' And what do you think he did? He eloped with a chorus girl.
The emphasis that I have placed upon an industrial education does not mean that the negro is to be excluded from the higher interests of life, but it does mean that in proportion as the negro gets the foundation,--the useful before the ornamental,--in the same proportion will he accelerate his progress in acquiring those elements which do not pertain so directly to the utilitarian.
Such works shall include works of artistic craftsmanship insofar as their form but not their mechanical or utilitarian aspects are concerned; the design of a useful article, as defined in this section, shall be considered a pictorial, graphic, or sculptural work only if, and only to the extent that, such design incorporates pictorial, graphic, or sculptural features that can be identified separately from, and are capable of existing independently of, the utilitarian aspects of the article.
The lonely horseman riding between the moonlight and the day sees vast shadows creeping across the shelterless and silent plains, hears strange noises in the primeval forest, where flourishes a vegetation long dead in other lands, and feels, despite his fortune, that the trim utilitarian civilisation which bred him shrinks into insignificance beside the contemptuous grandeur of forest and ranges coeval with an age in which European scientists have cradled his own race.
Trenor’s bank-account, almost always assured her ultimate triumph in such competitions, success had developed in her an unscrupulous good nature toward the rest of her sex, and in Miss Bart’s utilitarian classification of her friends, Mrs.
Quotes with UTILITARIAN (3)
a spider and a flyi heard a spiderand a fly arguingwait said the flydo not eat mei serve a great purposein the worldyou will have toshow me said the spideri scurry aroundgutters and sewersand garbage canssaid the fly and gatherup the germs oftyphoid influenzaand pneumonia on my feetand wingsthen i carry these germsinto households of menand give them diseasesall the people whohave lived the rightsort of life recoverfrom the diseasesand the old soaks whohave weakened their syst…
Described in this way, utilitarianism has little in common with the prosaic, visionless notion of the 'merely utilitarian,' in the sense of a narrowly or mundanely functional or efficient option. No such limited horizon confined the thought and character of the great English-language utilitarian philosophers, whose influence ran its course from the period just before the French Revolution through the Victorian era. Happiness, for them, was more of a cosmic calling, the path t…
Across the centuries the moral systems from medival chivalry to Bruce Springsteen love anthems have worked the same basic way. They take immediate selfish interests and enmesh them within transcendent, spiritual meanings. Love becomes a holy cause, an act of self-sacrifice and selfless commitment. But texting and the utilitarian mind-set are naturally corrosive toward poetry and imagination. A coat of ironic detachment is required for anyone who hopes to withstand the brutal …
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