Pragmatic Explained!

Pragmatic

Meaning and Usage

• Dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
• Relating to philosophical or political pragmatism.
• Treating historical phenomena with special reference to their causes, antecedent conditions, and results.

Adjective

• Concerned with practical matters
• Relating to a practical point of view
• Practical considerations
• Relating to affairs of state or community
• Archaic: busy, active, officious, meddlesome, interfering, dogmatic, opinionated

Other Forms:

• Pragmatic sanction – noun
• Pragmatically – adverb
• Pragmaticality – noun
• Pragmaticalness – noun
• Antipragmatic – adjective
• Antipragmatical – adjective
• Antipragmatically – adverb

Synonyms:  

• Businesslike
• Down-to-earth (reasonable, practical, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, earthy, unsophisticated)
• Efficient
• Logical
• Practical
• Realistic
• Sober
• Utilitarian
• Commonsensical
• Un-idealistic

Antonyms:

• Excited
• Impractical
• Inefficient
• Irrational
• Unrealistic
• Unreasonable
• Idealistic

Related Words:

• Dogmatic
• Canonical
• Deductive
• Prophetic
• Peremptory
• Oracular
• Reasoned
• Axiomatic
• Authoritative
• Empirical
• Expedient

Origin:

1610s, "meddlesome, impertinently busy," short for earlier pragmatical, or else from Middle French pragmatique (15c.), from Latin pragmaticus "skilled in business or law," from Greek pragmatikos "fit for business, active, business-like; systematic," from pragma (genitive pragmatos) "a deed, act; that which has been done; a thing, matter, affair," especially an important one; also a euphemism for something bad or disgraceful; in plural, "circumstances, affairs" (public or private), often in a bad sense, "trouble," literally "a thing done," from stem of prassein/prattein "to do, act, perform" (see practical ). Meaning "matter-of-fact" is from 1853. In some later senses from German pragmatisch.

Sentence:

1. To work in a pragmatic way in an organization to meet the company’s goals and objectives.
2. The decision was pragmatic in nature.
3. The decision was pragmatic so that it could be easily extrapolated.
4. The tent is a choice of architectural strategy which is not merely pragmatic.
5. The reason for this entirely pragmatic.
6. Only some politicians have a pragmatic approach towards politics.
7. His pragmatic view of public education comes from years of working in city schools.
8. Some people are pragmatist taking things as they come, and make the best of the choices available.
9. He pragmatically turns his whims into principles.
10. Conceptuality is a pragmatic blog, with a wide range of topics procured under a single roof.
11. He was highly practical and would come up with pragmatic solutions on various issues.
12. I know I am recommending a pragmatic rather than a principled stand, but that is what national interest and foreign policy are all about.
13. They are doing the right thing for once, so I'm not going to knock them because their reasons are pragmatic rather than ideological.
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15. All three authors point out that as a composer Jay is very pragmatic.
16. Thus his apparent liberality on this question rested on pragmatic considerations rather than on principle.
17. The lesson has certainly helped me rethink my politics and become more pragmatic and realistic in terms of our own struggle.
18. He saw the pragmatic account of meaning as a method for clearing up metaphysics and aiding scientific inquiry.

So, what does it mean for a person to be pragmatic?

A person who is pragmatic is concerned more with matters of fact that with what could or should be. A pragmatic person's realm is results and consequences. If that's where your focus is, you may want to apply the word to yourself.

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