Practical

Practical - Other Definitions

• (a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
  
  
• (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
  
  
• (a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
  
  
• (a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
  
  
• (adv.) In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
  
  
• (adv.) By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.
  
  
• (adv.) In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.
  
  
• (adv.) Almost.