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empractical

adj

Etymology

From em- + practical? Coined by Karl Bühler.

  1. derived from practicālis
  2. inherited from practical
  3. prefixed as empractical — “en + practical”

Definitions

  1. Of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity,…

    Of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity, characterized by fragmentary utterances and more silence than a conversation.

    • A surgeon performing an operation may make empractical utterances to her assistant to request tools, such as "scalpel".

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for empractical. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA