Sceptic vs Pragmatic - What's the difference?
sceptic | pragmatic |
Someone who is undecided as to what is true and enquires after facts.
Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs and claims presented by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting any belief or claim.
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
As a noun sceptic
is someone who is undecided as to what is true and enquires after facts.As an adjective pragmatic is
practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.sceptic
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Alternative forms
* skeptic (US )Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
Sceptic is more commonly used in the British Commonwealth, while in the US skeptic is used instead.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.
