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Commercial vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?

commercial | pragmatic |

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

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An advertisement in a common media format, usually radio or television.
  • Hyponyms

    * infomercial

    Hypernyms

    * advertisement

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to commerce.
  • * 1900 , , Chapter I,
  • 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.

    pragmatic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pragmatick (archaic) * pragmatique (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • *
  • 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).
  • philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
  • * Sir W. Hamilton
  • Pragmatic history.
  • * M. Arnold
  • Pragmatic poetry.

    Synonyms

    * (practical) down-to-earth, functional, practical, utilitarian, realistic

    Antonyms

    * idealistic

    Derived terms

    * pragma * pragmatically * pragmaticism * pragmatics