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practical
adjective
1 practical
Concerned with actual use or practice.
Roget 170:
operative,
efficient,
efficacious,
practical,
effectual.
at work,
on foot;
acting
etc.
(doing)
680;
in operation,
in force,
in action,
in play,
in exercise;
acted upon,
wrought upon.
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Roget 692:
conducting
etc.
v..
strategical,
businesslike,
practical,
executive.
Polish: praktyczny
2 practical
Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory:
— Completely practical in his approach to business.
synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, pragmatic.
Polish: pragmatyczny
3 practical
Being actually such in almost every respect:
— A practical failure.
synonym: virtual.
4 practical
Having or put to a practical purpose or use.
Moby thesaurus: achievable, actable, adaptable, advantageous, appliable, applicable, applied, appropriate, attainable, balanced, banausic, beneficial, breadwinning, businesslike, commercial, commodious, commonsense, compassable, compliant, constructive, convenient, cool, coolheaded, doable, down-to-earth, ductile, earthy, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, empirical, employable, everyday, expedient, exploitable, feasible, field, fitting, flexible, foolproof, functional, go, good for, handy, hard, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hardheaded, helpful, hoaxproof, judicious, levelheaded, logical, malleable, manageable, maneuverable, manipulable, manipulatable, materialistic, matter-of-fact, moneymaking, mundane, negotiable, not born yesterday, of general utility, of help, of service, of use, old, old-time, operable, operatable, operational, operative, ordinary, overcomable, performable, personal, philosophical, pliable, pliant, positivistic, practicable, practical-minded, practiced, pragmatic, pragmatical, proper, prosaic, rational, realist, realistic, realizable, reasonable, reusable, sane, scientific, scientistic, seasoned, secular, sensible, serviceable, skilled, sober, sober-minded, sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, superable, surmountable, tough-minded, tractable, uncullible, undeceivable, undeludable, undupable, unfoolable, ungullible, unhoaxable, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic, unseduceable, unsentimental, untroublesome, usable, useable, useful, utilitarian, utilizable, versed, vet, veteran, viable, virtual, well-balanced, wieldable, wieldy, wise, workable, workaday, workday, working, worldly, yielding ... show more.
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