Usually means: Maximizing happiness, minimizing suffering overall.
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  1. utilitarian: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. utilitarian: Merriam-Webster
  3. utilitarian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. utilitarian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. utilitarian: Collins English Dictionary
  6. utilitarian: Vocabulary.com
  7. Utilitarian, utilitarian: Wordnik
  8. utilitarian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. utilitarian: Wiktionary
  10. utilitarian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. utilitarian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. utilitarian: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. utilitarian: Dictionary.com
  14. utilitarian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Utilitarian (album), Utilitarian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Utilitarian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. utilitarian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. utilitarian: Rhymezone
  19. Utilitarian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. utilitarian: FreeDictionary.org
  21. utilitarian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. utilitarian: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. utilitarian: Legal dictionary

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  1. utilitarian: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. utilitarian: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Utilitarian: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (utilitarian)

▸ adjective:  Of or relating to utility.
▸ adjective:  (ethics) Pertaining to utilitarianism.
▸ adjective:  Practical and functional, present for use, not just for show.
▸ noun:  Someone who practices or advocates utilitarianism.

Similar:
functional, useful, utile, utilitarianistic, utilitarianist, utilitaristic, unctional, positional, purposivistic, universalistic, more...

Opposite:
nonutilitarian, aesthetic

Types:
act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, more...

Phrases:
utilitarian ethics, ethical utilitarian, Utilitarian genocide, opposite of utilitarian, not utilitarian, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, consistent, modern, classical, non, extreme, strict, hedonistic, good, pure

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Similar:
functional, useful, utile, utilitarianistic, utilitarianist, utilitaristic, unctional, positional, purposivistic, universalistic, more...

Opposite:
nonutilitarian, aesthetic

Types:
act utilitarianism, rule utilitarianism, more...

Phrases:
utilitarian ethics, ethical utilitarian, Utilitarian genocide, opposite of utilitarian, not utilitarian, farmhouse utilitarian, humble utilitarian, more...

Adjectives:
more, less, consistent, modern, classical, non, extreme, strict, hedonistic, good, pure

Colors:
    gray,     beige,     olive,     taupe,     khaki, more...



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