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pragmatic

adj
/pɹæɡˈmætɪk/

Etymology

From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).

  1. derived from πραγματικός
  2. derived from pragmaticus
  3. borrowed from pragmatique

Definitions

  1. Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not…

    Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.

    • The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive.
    • Another increasing concern with both ideological and pragmatic elements related to the situation of wickerworkers.

  2. Philosophical

    Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.

    • Polybius’s pragmatic history is simply the history of affairs, as distinguished from the descriptive and often poetical character which much history before his time had.

  3. Interfering in the affairs of others

    Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A man of business.

    2. A busybody.

    3. A public decree.

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Derived

antipragmatic, apragmatic, cyberpragmatic, grammaticopragmatic, lexicopragmatic, metapragmatic, nonpragmatic, polypragmatic, pragma, pragmatically, pragmaticism, pragmaticist, pragmaticistic, pragmaticize, pragmatics, pragmatic sanction, psychopragmatic, semantic-pragmatic disorder, sociopragmatic, unpragmatic

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