pragmatic
adjective /præɡˈmætɪk/
/præɡˈmætɪk/
- solving problems in a practical and sensible way rather than by having fixed ideas or theories synonym realistic
- a pragmatic approach to management problems
Extra Examples- They're pragmatic about the spending cuts.
- We must be ruthlessly pragmatic and intensely focused.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- become
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
- about
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the senses ‘busy, interfering, conceited’): via Latin from Greek pragmatikos ‘relating to fact’, from pragma ‘deed’ (from the stem of prattein ‘do’). The current senses date from the mid 19th cent.