pragmatic

Adjective

• 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
    

• of or concerning the theory of pragmatism

• concerned with practical matters
  • a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem
    
  • a matter-of-fact account of the trip
    

Noun

• an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  hardheaded , hard-nosed , practical , pragmatical , matter-of-fact , pragmatic sanction