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English - Wordnet 3.0    pronunciation

ADJECTIVE (4)

1. concerned with actual use or practice;
- Example: "he is a very practical person"
- Example: "the idea had no practical application"
- Example: "a practical knowledge of Japanese"
- Example: "woodworking is a practical art"

2. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory;
- Example: "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"
- Example: "a hard-nosed labor leader"
- Example: "completely practical in his approach to business"
- Example: "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
[syn: hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic]

3. being actually such in almost every respect;
- Example: "a practical failure"
- Example: "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
[syn: virtual(a), practical(a)]

4. having or put to a practical purpose or use;
- Example: "practical mathematics"
- Example: "practical applications of calculus"