utilitarian

Converse of object

• enlighten: In other words, even enlightened utilitarians should stop being motivated by it.

Modifies a noun

• calculus: If one used a utilitarian calculus in this " your child or your dog?
• ware: Some of these undecorated utilitarian wares may once have been used for cooking.
• philosopher: This is the strain that runs from Hobbes through the classical utilitarian philosophers.
• ethic: He used a utilitarian ethic to justify lying to millions.
• calculation: It's a language that chimes with the propositional logic of the workplace, the language of league tables and utilitarian calculation.
• argument: Indeed, my own faith in freedom does not rest in the last resort on utilitarian arguments at all.

Used with adjective complement

• look: It looks utilitarian enough to bash through the bush, yet handsome enough to pick up the kids in.
• become: This site has shed some of its more fancy handles since we last reviewed it, becoming more utilitarian.

Noun used with modifier

• preference: Chapter Thesis The conception of welfare used by preference utilitarians and many modern welfare economists is that of want-satisfaction.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: Not all the stone quarried in the Dales was used for purely utilitarian purposes.
• strictly: The Land Rovers they produced a million miles away from the luxury Rover saloons, being of a strictly utilitarian nature.
• essentially: It is the sphere of adaptive behavior, and is essentially utilitarian.
• rather: The farm is a rather utilitarian building set just beyond another group of trees.
• too: Gerry went to the library but found their recipes too utilitarian for his and his rabbits ' tastes.
• very: What I have described so far is no doubt a very utilitarian and economic view of culture!

Preposition: in

• character: Mill's arguments of toleration can be described as utilitarian in character.
• appearance: Some were strictly utilitarian in appearance; others were beautifully decorated.
• style: Shops along Queensway are more utilitarian in style, whilst those found in Station Square have a quaint, village feel about them.
• design: Other additions followed, but they were utilitarian in design rather than handsome, which can be said for the main Georgian block.