Pragmatic

Adjective

 * 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.

Synonyms

 * down-to-earth, functional, practical, utilitarian, realistic

Antonyms

 * idealistic

Derived terms

 * pragma
 * pragmatically


 * pragmaticism
 * pragmatics

Related terms

 * practical
 * pragmatism


 * pragmatist
 * pragmatize

Thesaurus
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Megarian, Stoic, advantageous, animist, animistic, appropriate, atomistic, balanced, banausic, beneficial, commodious, commonsense, cool, coolheaded, cosmotheistic, down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, effective, effectual, efficient, empirical, employable, eudaemonistic, existential, expedient, feasible, fitting, functional, good for, hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, helpful, humanist, humanistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, levelheaded, logical, materialistic, matter-of-fact, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, naturalistic, nominalist, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, operable, panlogistical, pantheistic, philosophical, positivist, positivistic, practicable, practical, practical-minded, pragmatical, pragmatist, proper, rational, rationalistic, realist, realistic, realizable, reasonable, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensationalistic, sensible, serviceable, sober, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unsentimental, useful, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic, well-balanced, workable, worldly

Etymology
From pragmatique: <  pragmaticus: <  πραγματικός: < πρᾶγμα:, in plural πράγματα: < πράσσειν: (whence English practical:).

Translations

 * Arabic: (ʕámaliy)
 * Catalan: pragmàtic, pragmàtica
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 * German:
 * Japanese: 実利的な, (じつりてきな, jitsuri teki na), 実用主義の (じつようしゅぎの, jitsuyō syugi no)


 * Korean: 실용적인 (silyongjeokin)
 * Latin: pragmaticus
 * Polish: pragmatyczny
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, pragmatică
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