practical
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
practical/ˈpraktɪkl/
▶adjective
- 1 of or concerned with practice.
- 2 likely to be effective in real circumstances; feasible.
■ suitable for a particular purpose.
- 3 (of a person) realistic in approach.
■ skilled at manual tasks.
- 4 so nearly the case that it can be regarded as so; virtual.
– origin C16: from archaic practic ‘practical’ (from OFr. practique, via late L. from Gk praktikos ‘concerned with action’) + -al.
'practical' also found in these Oxford entries:
academic
- actual
- apple-pie bed
- application
- applied
- audition
- bookwork
- brass
- businesslike
- chiropractic
- common sense
- demonstrate
- doctrinaire
- down to earth
- engineering
- expedient
- experience
- fieldwork
- folly
- foot
- functional
- ground
- hint
- inexpedient
- inoperable
- instrumentalism
- itching powder
- jape
- job club
- leg-pull
- marriage of convenience
- matter of fact
- metastable
- nature study
- nitty-gritty
- nous
- nut
- object lesson
- otiose
- play
- practicality
- practical joke
- practically
- practical nurse
- practicum
- practise
- pragmatic
- pragmatism
- prank
