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Practical

adjective

Concerned with actual use or practice. "The idea had no practical application" , "A practical knowledge of Japanese" , "Woodworking is a practical art"

Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory. Synonyms: hard-nosed, hardheaded, pragmatic. "A hard-nosed labor leader" , "Completely practical in his approach to business" , "Not ideology but pragmatic politics"

Being actually such in almost every respect. Synonym: virtual. "The once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"

Having or put to a practical purpose or use. "Practical applications of calculus"

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"Practical" Quotes from Famous Books

... he said when he asserted his place, "that a man of books is of no practical use in the world. I hereby intend to give a living ...

— The Young Trailers - A Story of Early Kentucky • Joseph A. Altsheler

... works by fits and starts when it suits him, or when he wants money. He lives in the open air, sleeping anywhere, and getting his food no one knows how. He is not altogether bad—not so frequently thieving and breaking the law, as intent on simple mischief and practical jokes of the coarsest and roughest sort—still, he is a pest that Aucklanders inveigh heartily against, and would gladly see extirpated by the ...

— Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) - or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand • William Delisle Hay

... had other girls around the office since Miss Larrabee left, but they do not seem to get the work done with any system. She was not only industrious but practical. Friday mornings, when her work piled up, instead of fussing around the office and chattering at the telephone, she would dive into her desk and bring up her regular list of adjectives. These she would copy on three slips, carefully dividing the list so that no one had a duplicate, and ...

— In Our Town • William Allen White

... the fortunes, or misfortunes, of war that a position gained one day, even at great human sacrifice, may be of no real or practical value whatever the next. So it was with the advance post of communication located by Lieutenant Mackinson and his party under such dangerous conditions ...

— The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service • James R. Driscoll

... the other end of the room, saying that he must have some wine, and would; and disdainful was his look at Evan, when the latter attempted to reason him into economy. He ordered the wine; drank a glass, which coloured a new mood in him; and affecting a practical ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

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