| a. | 1. | Of or pertaining to practice or action. | |||
| 2. | Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from | ||||
| 3. | Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; | ||||
| 4. | Derived from practice;
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| Adj. | 1. | practical - concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art" Antonyms: impractical - not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work" |
| 2. | practical - guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics" | |
| 3. | practical - being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin" Synonyms: virtual | |
| 4. | practical - having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus" |