Synonyms for Practical
ˈpræk tɪ kəlprac·ti·cal

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1. practicaladjective

   Based on practice or action rather than theory or hypothesis

   Jack didn't get an engineering degree, but has practical knowledge of metalworking.

   Antonyms:
   theoretical

2. practicaladjective

   Jack's knowledge has the practical benefit of giving us useful prototype parts.

   Antonyms:
   impractical

3. practicaladjective

   All in all, Jack's a very practical chap

   Antonyms:
   impractical

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. practical

   Synonyms:
   useful, serviceable, skilled, trained

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. practicaladjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   hard-nosed, practical(a), pragmatic, hardheaded, virtual(a)

   Antonyms:
   unrealistic, meshuggeneh, theoretical, softheaded, screwball, impractical, crazy, meshuga, meshugga, unwieldy, meshugge, romantic, unfunctional, wild-eyed, quixotic, half-baked, meshuggener

2. hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmaticadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   practical(a), pragmatical, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, mulish, hard-nosed, virtual(a), pragmatic, practical

   Antonyms:
   meshuggeneh, meshuga, unwieldy, meshugga, screwball, impractical, wild-eyed, unrealistic, theoretical, romantic, unfunctional, softheaded, quixotic, half-baked, crazy, meshuggener, meshugge

3. virtual(a), practical(a)adjective

   being actually such in almost every respect

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

   Antonyms:
   quixotic, crazy, unwieldy, half-baked, meshuga, unrealistic, romantic, softheaded, meshugga, theoretical, meshuggener, screwball, meshugge, meshuggeneh, unfunctional, impractical, wild-eyed

4. practicaladjective

   having or put to a practical purpose or use

   "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"

   Synonyms:
   hard-nosed, practical(a), pragmatic, hardheaded, virtual(a)

   Antonyms:
   softheaded, unwieldy, crazy, quixotic, unfunctional, meshuggeneh, meshugge, meshuggener, romantic, theoretical, unrealistic, meshuga, half-baked, meshugga, impractical, wild-eyed, screwball

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. practicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   adapted to practice or use, not speculative, not theoretical

2. practicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   experienced, versed, proficient, trained, qualified, practised, skilled, thoroughbred, able, AU FAIT

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1. practicaladjective

   Synonyms:
   pragmatical

   Antonyms:
   impractical, utopian, chimerical

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1. List of paraphrases for "practical":

   practices, practice, concrete, pragmatic, actual, practicable, hands-on, specific, tangible, convenient, realistic, real, pratique, process, workable, feasible, operation, action-oriented, viable, handy, circulation, operational

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How to use Practical in a sentence?

1. The Security Council diplomat:

   No matter how capable China is, China’s efforts will not yield practical results as it depends on the two primary parties, they hold the primary responsibility to keep things moving.

2. Dutch Migration Minister Klaas Dijkhoff:

   Currently, the temporary border measures can be taken only for a limited period of six months. But the unprecedented influx of asylum seekers, which compelled member states to take these measures nationally, have not decreased yet, so member states invited the (European) Commission to prepare the legal and practical basis for the continuance of temporary border measures through Article 26 of the Schengen border code.

3. Patricia Kim:

   I think the President Joe Biden administration has tried to distinguish its North Korea policy by making the case that it's not interested in flashy summits or grand bargains, but that it wants to take a practical and calibrated approach to build towards the complete denuclearization of North Korea, i think the hang up, of course, is not so much Patricia Kim policy, but the fact that North Korea seems to have zero interest in talking about denuclearization.

4. Michael Burtov:

   It’s not a more efficient system, it’s just a more practical and applicable system.

5. Marci Hamilton:

   The remarkable similarity of the pattern over the course of all those years, that is evidence that may well be relevant in this case, while that can't be the basis for their legal reasoning, they know as a practical matter that what they definitely don't have in front of them is one woman in a he-said, she-said case.