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utilitarian

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Whether you want a classic design, a utilitarian look, or something resembling a page from an interior design magazine, we found some options that can improve your laundry area aesthetics.

Most successful e-commerce marketplaces are extremely utilitarian.

From Digiday

Sometimes, the most charming — or utilitarian — aspects of these books aren’t even the recipes.

From Eater

Note the power source—a noisy combustion engine—and utilitarian design.

But, according to the utilitarian, you’ve still got to deal with another issue.

Is that a utilitarian approach—that you need to understand how institutions have changed to understand the way they are?

He even dresses Foster like one of his male heroes—her tank top utilitarian, without gender.

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.

He finished his strictly utilitarian household labor and went off up the flat to the sluice boxes.

His old enemy, the utilitarian theory, had taken subtle root in his affections.

It was impossible, he thought, on utilitarian principles to make men work for the happiness of the many.

It is the intense appreciation of this truth that gives the Mosaic institutions so practical and utilitarian a character.

Helen thought his utilitarian dislike of idleness was open to this objection, but it was not the time to urge Bob's cause.

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On this page you'll find 32 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to utilitarian, such as: functional, sensible, pragmatic, commonsensical, down-to-earth, and effective.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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