Pragmatic vs Efficient - What's the difference?
pragmatic | efficient |
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
Making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.
* {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
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Using a particular proportion of available energy.
Causing effects; producing results.
* Wilson
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As adjectives the difference between pragmatic and efficient
is that pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory while efficient is making good, thorough, or careful use of resources; not consuming extra. Especially, making good use of time or energy.pragmatic
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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.
Synonyms
* (practical) down-to-earth, functional, practical, utilitarian, realisticAntonyms
* idealisticDerived terms
* pragma * pragmatically * pragmaticism * pragmaticsExternal links
* *efficient
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic
- The efficient cause is the working cause.
