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pragmatick

pragmatick is the obsolete form of pragmatic.

Meaning of pragmatic

Adjective

pragmatic (comparative more pragmatic, superlative most pragmatic)

  1. Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.
    • The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive.
  2. Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.
    • Polybius’s pragmatic history is simply the history of affairs, as distinguished from the descriptive and often poetical character which much history before his time had.1854 March, J. G., “On the Dating of Ancient History”, in Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, volume 1, page 53
  3. Relating to the field of pragmatics.
  4. (obsolete) Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome.

See all 7 meanings of pragmatic

Forms of pragmatick

comparativemore pragmatick
superlativemost pragmatick

Questions about pragmatick

What is pragmatick the obsolete form of?
Pragmatick is the obsolete form of pragmatic.

Words near pragmatick in the dictionary

  1. pragmaticists
  2. pragmaticize
  3. pragmaticized
  4. pragmaticizes
  5. pragmaticizing
  6. pragmatick
  7. pragmatics
  8. pragmatique
  9. pragmatise
  10. pragmatised
  11. pragmatiser

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