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/prˈæktəkli/ /prˈæktəkəli/ Listen

adverb

Practically adv.

In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.

In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.

Almost.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... one know," asked Molly, at length, with a vague air of addressing the trees, mindful, as she spoke, of the manner in which Mr. Landale had practically dismissed her and her sister at a certain point of his version of his brother's history, "why Sir Adrian has shut himself up in that place instead of living at the Hall all ...

— The Light of Scarthey • Egerton Castle

... tone, the brilliant talk of this new friend, his views of life, his paradoxes, the axioms of Parisian Machiavelism,—all these things impressed Lucien unawares. Theoretically the poet knew that such thoughts were perilous; but he believed them practically useful. ...

— A Distinguished Provincial at Paris • Honore de Balzac

... soaring spirits, of the possible effect of numerous small ringings of pitcher on basin, the clatter of drawers, upon Camilla. Yesterday she had worn a dress of light wool delaine; but this morning, she decided largely, summer had practically come; and, on her own authority, she got an affair of thin pineapple cloth out of the yellow camphorwood chest. She hurriedly finished weaving her heavy chestnut hair into two gleaming plaits, fastened ...

— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer

... facts the judgment proceeds: "I have recorded the statements of the defendant and a witness produced by him. I have also made a local inspection. I find that the landlord, (the plaintiff) knew that for certain reasons the house was practically uninhabitable, and he concealed that fact from his tenant. He, therefore, could not recover. The suit ...

— Indian Ghost Stories - Second Edition • S. Mukerji

... future? The answer is that only under two conditions could an indefinitely large amount of present "saving" be justified. The first condition is that an unlimited proportion of this "saving" can be stored in forms which are practically imperishable; the second condition is that our present foresight shall enable us to forecast the methods of production and consumption which shall prevail in the distant future. In fact neither of these conditions exists. However much present "saving" we stored in the ...

— The Evolution of Modern Capitalism - A Study of Machine Production • John Atkinson Hobson

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