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.

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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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational.

a reasonable being

Just; fair; agreeable to reason.

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Not excessive or immoderate; within due limits; proper.

a reasonable demand, amount, or price

Not expensive; fairly priced.

$20 a bottle is very reasonable for a good wine at a restaurant.

Satisfactory.