inutilitarian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
in- + utilitarian
Adjective[edit]
inutilitarian (comparative more inutilitarian, superlative most inutilitarian)
- useless
- 1853, Thomas Toke Lynch, Essays on some of the forms of Literature, page 29:
- Poetry has then its weedage plenteous and pestilent. Yet count not the thousand apparently inutilitarian charms and sweetnesses, as parts of this weedage: a wreath of roses has its own worth no less than a sheaf of corn.