Of or pertaining to business or to affairs; of the nature of business; practical; material; businesslike in habit or manner.
Busy; specifically, busy in an objectionable way; officious; fussy and positive; meddlesome.
Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; -- said of literature.
dealing with things in a practical, "whatever works" manner, rather than relying on ideology or other theoretical considerations.
concerned with practical matters; "a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem"; "a matter-of-fact account of the trip"
of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
Concerning the situational use of language and knowledge of the real world. The factors governing the choice between and usted in Spanish are often described as pragmatic, because they have to do with what speakers know about their relationship to their interlocutors.
Dealing or concerned with facts or actual occurrences; practical.
This word is included here (but no other of its kind except epistemological) solely to permit a warning against its current degradation in making it stand for what is practical to a single organism in limited durational spread - this being a use remote from that of its origin
