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pragmatically

adv

Etymology

From pragmatic + -ally or pragmatical + -ly.

  1. derived from πραγματικός
  2. derived from pragmaticus
  3. borrowed from pragmatique
  4. formed as pragmatically — “pragmatic + -ally”

Definitions

  1. In a pragmatic manner.

    • "Well, there's no use crying over spilt milk," she said pragmatically.
    • To be pragmatically determined, it must be the case that the expression does not contribute new information to the structure of the discourse except as an unremarkable scenesetter.

  2. In terms of pragmatics.

    • a pragmatically irrelevant proposition

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