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noninstrumental

noninstrumental adjective: not instrumental.

Adjective

noninstrumental (not comparable)

  1. Not instrumental
    • Nor do they ever concentrate long on clapping, foot-tapping or vocalism, even though hands, feet, speech and song are the most efficient noninstrumental human means of creating complex aural rhythm.2007 May 10, Alastair Macaulay, “Stomp, Sneeze, Grunt, Gasp and All That Body Language”, in New York Times
    • […] we are judging the moral quality of the individual herself in some more focused, noninstrumental, and seemingly more serious way.2006 December 15, Angela M. Smith, “Control, responsibility, and moral assessment”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 138, number 3, →DOI

Antonyms of noninstrumental

Origin of noninstrumental

From non- + instrumental.

Words that rhyme with noninstrumental

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Questions about noninstrumental

What does noninstrumental mean?
Noninstrumental means not instrumental.
What part of speech is noninstrumental?
Noninstrumental is an adjective.

Words near noninstrumental in the dictionary

  1. noninstitutions
  2. noninstructed
  3. noninstruction
  4. noninstructional
  5. noninstructive
  6. noninstrumental
  7. noninstrumentalist
  8. noninstrumentalists
  9. noninstrumentally
  10. noninstrumented
  11. noninsular

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