Commercial vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?
commercial | pragmatic |
Of or pertaining to commerce.
* 1900 , , Chapter I,
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 commercial and pragmatic
is that commercial is of or pertaining to commerce while pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.As a noun commercial
is an advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.commercial
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Hyponyms
* infomercialHypernyms
* advertisementAdjective
(en adjective)- A two minutes' walk brought Warwick--the name he had registered under, and as we shall call him--to the market-house, the central feature of Patesville, from both the commercial and the picturesque points of view.
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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.