banausic

adjective

Definition of banausicnext
as in utilitarian

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  1. utilitarian
  2. mundane
  3. pragmatic
Adjective
  • In such utilitarian areas, those with short, dense fibers are more durable than ones containing longer, looser fibers.
    Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The concrete seawall could only have been a few decades old, and the municipal buildings had a familiar utilitarian air.
    Greg Jackson, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
Definition of utilitarian
Adjective
  • These mundane tasks and long hours of repetitive training culminate in competitive outbursts where careers are made and broken.
    Connor Sheets, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • By Matteo Wong Photographs by Jenn Ackerman When Melissa Kono, the town clerk in Burnside, Wisconsin, began training election workers in 2015, their questions were relatively mundane.
    Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of mundane
Adjective
  • Commercial aviation CVCs have a similar profile, with a higher emphasis on SAF, which reflects a pragmatic response to the pressure investors have put on airlines for sustainable flying.
    Dean Donovan, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Small wonder the fantasy of rising above all of that through marrying Ivan — a unicorn customer who’s young, handsome, wealthy, gregarious, and spontaneous — would beckon to the otherwise pragmatic Ani.
    Lily Burana, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of pragmatic
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“Banausic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/banausic. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.

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