Definition of Practical

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Practical

Of or pertaining to practice or action.

Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.

Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.

Derived from practice; as, practical skill.

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Practical Quotations

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mohandas Gandhi

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas Carlyle

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Benjamin Disraeli

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.
H. P. Lovecraft

Practical Translations

practical in Afrikaans is prakties
practical in Danish is praktisk, virkelig
practical in Dutch is praktisch
practical in Finnish is todellinen
practical in German is brauchbar, geeignet
practical in Italian is utilitario
practical in Norwegian is praktisk
practical in Swedish is praktisk


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