• Noninstrumental

    Origin

    - + instrumental

    Full definition of noninstrumental

    Adjective

    noninstrumental

    1. Not instrumental
      • 2007, May 10, Alastair Macaulay, Stomp, Sneeze, Grunt, Gasp and All That Body Language, 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.
      • December 15, When, in this context, we consider an individual worthy of blame or praise, we are not merely judging the moral quality of the event with which the individual is so intimately associated; ...
        we are judging the moral quality of the individual herself in some more focused, noninstrumental, and seemingly more serious way.

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