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empractical

empractical adjective: of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity, characterized by fragmentary utterances and more silence than a conversation.

Adjective

empractical (comparative more empractical, superlative most empractical)

  1. Of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity, characterized by fragmentary utterances and more silence than a conversation.
    • A surgeon performing an operation may make empractical utterances to her assistant to request tools, such as "scalpel".

Forms of empractical

comparativemore empractical
superlativemost empractical

Origin of empractical

From em- + practical? Coined by Karl Bühler.

Questions about empractical

What does empractical mean?
Empractical means of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity, characterized by fragmentary utterances and more silence than a conversation.
What part of speech is empractical?
Empractical is an adjective.

Words near empractical in the dictionary

  1. empowerment
  2. empowerments
  3. empowers
  4. empowre
  5. empowres
  6. empractical
  7. empress
  8. empress cloth
  9. empress cloths
  10. empress dowager
  11. empress dowagers

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