pragmatical


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prag·mat·ic

 (prăg-măt′ĭk)
adj.
1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
2. Philosophy Of or relating to pragmatism.
3. Linguistics Of or relating to pragmatics.
4. Relating to or being the study of cause and effect in historical or political events with emphasis on the practical lessons to be learned from them.
n.
A pragmatic sanction.

[Latin prāgmaticus, skilled in business, from Greek prāgmatikos, from prāgma, prāgmat-, deed, from prāssein, prāg-, to do.]

prag·mat′i·cal adj.
prag·mat′i·cal·ly adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.pragmatical - of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
2.pragmatical - concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
practical - 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"
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pragmatical

adjective
Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are:
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"It is like you to give a pragmatical opinion without being acquainted with any of the circumstances of the case; I have had no dinner."
Nay, it seemeth at this instant they are sensible, of this want of natives; as by the Pragmatical Sanction, now published, appeareth.
Some pragmatical seventeenth century lawyer, I suppose.
Wyeth was immediately for pursuing them, rifle in hand, but saw evident signs of dissatisfaction in his half-breed hunters; who considered him as trenching upon their province, and meddling with things quite above his capacity; for these veterans of the wilderness are exceedingly pragmatical, on points of venery and woodcraft, and tenacious of their superiority; looking down with infinite contempt upon all raw beginners.
The little man apologized, with a cheerful and simpering conceit, for his litter of curiosities, his dressing-gown, and his delicate health; and, waving his hand toward a chair, placed his attention, with pragmatical politeness, at the visitor's disposal.
But the majority's positive attitude to the EU has very often been characterised by superficiality, indifference and pragmatical motives.
Rationality of inconsistency in schizophrenic conversation (Conversational pragmatical and formal semantic analysis).
Yang, "Pragmatical generalized synchronization of chaotic systems with uncertain parameters by adaptive control," Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, vol.
IA (ZDI in Spanish): a didactic and pragmatical approach, 3.1.1.
By pragmatical asymptotically stability theorem [19, 20], D is a 13-manifold, n = 13, and the number of error state variables p = 4.
when dealing with the problem with ambiguity and uncertainty, intuitionistic fuzzy set is more flexible and pragmatical.