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practical

• (a) concerned with actual use or practice
  • he is a very practical person
  • the idea had no practical application
  • a practical knowledge of Japanese
  • woodworking is a practical art
• (s) guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
  • a hardheaded appraisal of our position
  • a hard-nosed labor leader
  • completely practical in his approach to business
  • not ideology but pragmatic politics
  hard-nosed, hardheaded, pragmatic,
• (s) being actually such in almost every respect
  • a practical failure
  • the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin
  virtual,
• (s) having or put to a practical purpose or use
  • practical mathematics
  • practical applications of calculus

Synonyms

hard-nosed hardheaded pragmatic virtual

Antonyms

impractical

See also

concrete possible realistic serviceable

Words of close approximity