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Definition of Pragmatic

1. Adjective. Concerned with practical matters. "A matter-of-fact account of the trip"

2. Noun. An imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land.

3. Adjective. Of or concerning the theory of pragmatism.

4. Adjective. Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory. "Not ideology but pragmatic politics"

Definition of Pragmatic

1. a. Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.

2. n. One skilled in affairs.

Definition of Pragmatic

1. Adjective. Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pragmatic

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pragmatic

praetorial praetorian praetorians praetorium praetors praetorship praetorships praevocalic praezygapophyses praezygapophysis

pragma pragmalinguist pragmalinguistic pragmalinguists pragmas pragmatic (current term) pragmatic sanction pragmatical pragmatically pragmaticalness

pragmaticism pragmaticisms pragmaticist pragmaticists pragmatics pragmatique pragmatism pragmatisms pragmatist pragmatistic

Literary usage of Pragmatic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"All men had notice enough of this Imperial bit of Sheepskin, before they got done with it, five-and-twenty years hence.7 A very famous pragmatic Sanction; ..."

2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"Curiously enough, the first guarantor of the pragmatic Sanction was Philip V, Charles' successful rival in Spain. On hostile terms with England and Holland, ..."

3. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Imperial Majesty's pragmatic Sanction Kaiser Karl meanwhile was rather short of heirs; which formed another of his real troubles, ..."

4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"Imperial Majesty's pragmatic Sanction Kaiser Karl meanwhile was rather short of heirs; which formed another of his real troubles, and involved him in much ..."

5. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"The operation once accomplished on its own pragmatic Covenant, France found no difficulty with the others. Everybody was disposed to eat his Covenant who ..."

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