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10 words match “PRAGMATIC”

PRAGMATIC n. 2 definitions
One skilled in affairs. My attorney and solicitor too; a fine pragmatic. B. Jonson.
PRAGMATIC; PRAGMATICAL a. 3 definitions
actical; material; businesslike in habit or manner. The next day . . . I began to be very pragmatical. Evelyn. We can not always be contemplative, diligent, or pragmatical, abroad; but have need of some delightful intermissions. Milton. Low, pragmatical, earthly views of the gospel. Hare.
PRAGMATICALLY adv.
In a pragmatical manner.
PRAGMATICALNESS n.
The quality or state of being pragmatical.
POLYPRAGMATIC; POLYPRAGMATICAL a.
Overbusy; officious. [R.] Heywood.
PRAGMATISM n.
The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method. The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history. A. Murphy.
PRAGMATIST n.
One who is pragmatic.
PRIER n.
One who pries; one who inquires narrowly and searches, or is inquisitive. So pragmatical a prier he is into divine secrets. Fuller.
PRIG n.
A pert, conceited, pragmatical fellow. The queer prig of a doctor. Macaulay.
PRIGGISH a.
Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- Prig"gish*ly, adv. -- Prig"gish-ness, n.