practical

Adjective

• having or put to a practical purpose or use
  • practical mathematics
    
  • practical applications of calculus
    

• being actually such in almost every respect
  • a practical failure
    
  • the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  virtual(a) , practical(a) , hardheaded , hard-nosed , pragmatic