Pragmatic vs Methodical - What's the difference?
pragmatic | methodical |
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
In an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.
Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation.
* Addison
As adjectives the difference between pragmatic and methodical
is that pragmatic is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory while methodical is in an organized manner; proceeding with regard to method; systematic.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
* *methodical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- the methodical''' arrangement of arguments; a '''methodical treatise
- Methodical regularity.
