pragmatic

adj.实际的,

Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
pragmatic (adjective)
1.
archaic
a) (1) - busy
(2) - officious
b) - opinionated
2.
relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters practical as opposed to idealistic - pragmatic men of power have had no time or inclination to deal with … social morality K. B. Clark
3.
relating to or being in accordance with philosophical - pragmatism (see pragmatism)
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
pragmatic (adjective)
willing to see things as they really are and deal with them sensibly
SYNONYMS:
down-to-earth, earthy, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatic ( pragmatical)
RELATED WORDS:
idealless, philistine, utilitarian; commonsensical, grounded, levelheaded, logical, no-nonsense, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible, sober, sobersided, sound; bottom-line, hard, hard-boiled, hard-edged, tough-minded, unromantic, unsentimental; cynical, disillusioned, misanthropic, pessimistic; distrustful, mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious
NEAR ANTONYMS:
fanciful, fantastic ( fantastical), imaginative; romantic, sentimental; cheerful, optimistic, rose-colored; trustful, trusting, unsuspicious; half-baked, illogical, insane, irrational, unreasonable; theoretical ( theoretic)
blue-sky, idealistic, impractical, unrealistic, utopian, visionary
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