inutilitarian
English
editEtymology
editin- + utilitarian
Adjective
editinutilitarian (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.