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serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical: architecture that was more banausic than inspired.
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Banausic
is always a great word to know.
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| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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banausic
"merely mechanical," coined 1845 from Gk. banausikos "pertaining to mechanics," from banausos "artisan, mere mechanical," hence (to the Greeks) "base, ignoble;" perhaps lit. "working by fire," from baunos "furnace, forge" (but Klein dismisses this as folk etymology and calls it "of uncertain origin").
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