practical

adj 1: 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" [ant: {impractical}]

2: 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" [syn: {hardheaded}, {hard-nosed}, {pragmatic}]

3: being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical

failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"

[syn: {virtual(a)}, {practical(a)}]

4: having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical

mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"