Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Pragmatic   /prægmˈætɪk/   Listen
Pragmatic

noun
1.
An imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land.  Synonym: pragmatic sanction.





Click any word on the page to get its definition
WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University
Text size:  A A


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Pragmatic" Quotes from Famous Books



... The pragmatic value of this idea is that it introduces a much needed refinement into the ancient controversy about nature and nurture, innate quality and environment. For the pseudo-environment is a hybrid compounded ...
— Public Opinion • Walter Lippmann
 Read full book for free!
... money in his purse, in order to indulge himself "a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age to do it." From Milton and the Earl of Clarendon to William Pitt, England was no country of lost causes and impossible enthusiasms. It was a pragmatic age, in which the scientific discoveries of Newton are the highest intellectual achievement, and the conclusion of Pope that "everything that is is best" gives the quality of ...
— Beginnings of the American People • Carl Lotus Becker
 Read full book for free!


Words linked to "Pragmatic" :   pragmatism, imperial decree, realistic


Copyright © 2025 Free-Translator.com