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inutilitarian en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + utilitarian.

Meanings

1. useless
   • 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. 1853, Thomas Toke Lynch, Essays on some of the forms of Literature, page 29:

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