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pragmatic | p |

As an adjective pragmatic

is practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.

As a letter p is

the sixteenth letter of the.

As a symbol p is

symbol for phosphorus.

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

    p

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=o, next=q, image= (wikipedia p)

    Letter

  • The sixteenth letter of the .
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * With hook: * (wynn) {{Letter , page=P , NATO=Papa , Morse=·––· , Character=P , Braille=? }} Image:Latin P.png, Capital and lowercase versions of P , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter P.png, Uppercase and lowercase P in Fraktur

    Symbol

    (Voiceless bilabial plosive) (head)
  • voiceless bilabial plosive
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