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Crafty vs Practic - What's the difference?

crafty | practic |

As adjectives the difference between crafty and practic

is that crafty is relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous while practic is (archaic) practical.

As a noun practic is

a person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

crafty

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous.
  • Possessing dexterity; skilled; skillful.
  • Skillful at deceiving others; characterized by craft; cunning; wily.
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
    • Together, with the help of the drunkard Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), the only District 12 citizen ever to win the Games, they challenge tributes that range from sadistic volunteers to crafty kids like the pint-sized Rue (Amandla Stenberg) to the truly helpless and soon-to-be-dead.

    Synonyms

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    practic

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (archaic) Practical.
  • *, II.i.4.3:
    • They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].
  • (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xii:
    • she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

    Derived terms

    * practical

    Related terms

    * practise

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