PRAGMATIC as ADJECTIVE

  1. Meaning
    • concerned with practical matters
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    • a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem
    • a matter-of-fact account of the trip
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  2. Meaning
    • guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory
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    • a hardheaded appraisal of our position
    • a hard-nosed labor leader
    • completely practical in his approach to business
    • not ideology but pragmatic politics
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  3. Meaning
    • of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
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