Haphazard vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?
haphazard | pragmatic |
random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent
Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
* The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic , but unattractive.
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philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
* Sir W. Hamilton
* M. Arnold
As adjectives the difference between haphazard and pragmatic
is that haphazard is random; chaotic; incomplete; not thorough, constant, or consistent while pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.haphazard
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Adjective
(-)- Do not make such haphazard changes to the settings; instead, adjust the knobs carefully, a bit at a time.
Antonyms
* systematicpragmatic
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Alternative forms
* pragmatick (archaic) * pragmatique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- Nor indeed are these restrictions pragmatic'' in nature: i.e. the ill-formedness of the ''heed''-sentences in (60) is entirely different in kind from the oddity of sentences like:
(61) !That man will eat any car which thinks he?s stupid
which is purely ''pragmatic (i.e. lies in the fact that (61) describes the kind of bizarre situation which just doesn?t happen in the world we are familiar with, where cars don?t think, and people don?t eat cars).
- Pragmatic history.
- Pragmatic poetry.
