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Tim Southernwood | | Hey folks,
My apologies for missing last week.
Your word of the week today:
pragmatic
adj.
1. Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
2. Philosophy. Of or relating to pragmatism.
3. Relating to or being the study of cause and effect in historical or political events with emphasis on the practical lessons to be learned from them.
4. Archaic.
1. Active; busy.
2. Active in an officious or meddlesome way.
3. Dogmatic; dictatorial.
n.
1. A pragmatic sanction.
2. Archaic. A meddler; a busybody.
Etymology
1543 (implied in pragmatical), from M.Fr. pragmatique, from L. pragmaticus "skilled in business or law," from Gk. pragmatikos "versed in business," from pragma (gen. pragmatos) "civil business, deed, act," from prassein "to do, act, perform." Pragmatism in philosophy is attested from 1898, first in William James, probably from Ger. Pragmatismus.
Synonyms
realistic, utilitarian, philistine, extensional, logical
Antonyms
idealistic, unreasonable
pragmatic Usage Examples
Preposition: with
* regard: Yes he was perhaps pragmatic with regard to having an understanding of ministering to people where they were at.
Preposition: in
* nature: This type of voice is therefore analyzed as pragmatic in nature.
* order: The design was essentially pragmatic in order that it could be easily extrapolated to NHS practice.
Modifies a noun
* inference: It is a product of encoded linguistic meaning together with a special class of default pragmatic inferences which he calls generalized conversational implicatures.
* approach: In the early years, a pragmatic approach was taken to public sector reform.
* realism: But the ' pragmatic realism ' claimed by these two governments risks reproducing exactly what they pretend to interrupt.
* solution: Adrian Martin came up with a pragmatic solution to the problem.
* stance: Dewey's perspective was thus a pragmatic stance toward knowledge.
* consideration: In other arts such pragmatic considerations were less important.
Modifying Another Word
* purely: There is a related view, very popular, which is purely pragmatic.
* essentially: Third, we should accept the positive elements of Blair's essentially pragmatic approach.
* entirely: The reason for this is entirely pragmatic; in practice people discriminate these factors more finely than they do the others.
* merely: The tent is a choice of architectural strategy which is not merely pragmatic.
* fairly: This is a fairly pragmatic requirement about there being somewhere in the UK which is suitable for the placement of the student.
* highly: John Deacon takes an in-depth, highly pragmatic approach, which demonstrates how to lay the foundations for developing the best possible software.
Used with adjective complement
* remain: Despite this, Saint Just remains pragmatic, and retains a surprising respect for those who create the works he defiles.
* provide: Our core service is utilizing our accountancy and business expertise to provide pragmatic, technically correct and honest advice.
* seem: This argument seems pragmatic to me, but I could be wrong.
* deliver: These deliver pragmatic, appropriate, transparent actions leading directly to positive impacts.
* get: First, forget idealism and dogmatism and get pragmatic!
Tim Southernwood
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