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Dictionary: ba·nau·sic   (bə-nô'sĭk, -zĭk) pronunciation
 
adj.
  1. Merely mechanical; routine: “a sensitive, self-conscious creature . . . in sad revolt against uncongenially banausic employment” (London Magazine).
  2. Of or relating to a mechanic.

[Greek banausikos, from banausos, mechanic.]


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relating to or concerned with earning a living -- used pejoratively
contempt for the banausic occupations - T. S. Eliot
also: utilitarian, practical
such mundane and banausic considerations as comfort and durability - G. B. Boyer
 
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: (formal) ordinary and not refined


 
 

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