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| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : yoo-til-i-tair-ee-uhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : yuˌtɪl ɪˈtɛər i ən |
Definition of utilitarian
Origin :- 1781, coined by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) from utility. One guided by the doctrine of the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
- adj practical
- We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing.
- Extract from : « De Profundis » by Oscar Wilde
- But Shelley's world was the world of the utilitarian Godwin and the mathematical Condorcet.
- Extract from : « Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle » by H. N. Brailsford
- In the most commercial and utilitarian states of society the power of ideas remains.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- The Utilitarian finds a place in his system for this virtue and for every other.'
- Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
- Yet of this interval the utilitarian theory takes no cognizance.
- Extract from : « Philebus » by Plato
- In early educational periods, all values are practical, or utilitarian.
- Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
- It was a sort of ally on my side against the utilitarian plainness of my guest.
- Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
- Something also it owed to its unpretentious yet practical and utilitarian character.
- Extract from : « Art in England » by Dutton Cook
- The man who says present is all does so because he is an utilitarian.
- Extract from : « Evening Round Up » by William Crosbie Hunter
- They are both mystic and utilitarian, or compounded of the two.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
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