Sekirov Dictionary

pragmatic

/pɹæɡˈmætɪk/

adjective 4
noun 3
forms 3

adjective4

•
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.
Relating to the field of pragmatics.
•
Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
- Polybius’s pragmatic history is simply the history of affairs, as distinguished from the descriptive and often poetical character which much history before his time had. — 1854
(no longer used) Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome.

noun3

forms

pragmatics · more pragmatic · most pragmatic

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