Synonyms for pragmatic
- adjective
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Adjective
1. Practical — practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory
practical, hard-headed, down-to-earth, realistic, utilitarian, unsentimental, political, functional, unromantic
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Definitions
- adj. 1
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.
Related words
- Word family
- pragma pragmaticize practical pragmatism pragmatist pragmatize
- Phrases
- pragmatic sanction pragmatic language impairment
- Other spellings
- pragmatical
Example sentences
- practical I have no practical reason to learn that language.
- realistic Do you really think that your plans are realistic?
By length
- 9 letters
- political4, practical3, realistic4
- 10 letters
- functional3, unromantic
- 11 letters
- utilitarian6
- 13 letters
- unsentimental5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (political4 = 4 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- pragmatique
- Italiano
- pragmatico