Word Meanings - PRACTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Practical. 2. Artful; deceitful; skillful. "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.

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• SKILLFUL
  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. "Of skillful judgment." Chaucer. 2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as,
• CUNNINGNESS
  Quality of being cunning; craft.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• ARTFULNESS
  The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• CUNNINGLY
  In a cunning manner; with cunning.
• PRACTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.
• PRACTICALLY
  1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3.
• CUNNINGMAN
  A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.
• ARTFUL
  1. Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill. "Artful strains." "Artful terms." Milton. 2. Artificial; imitative. Addison. 3. Using or exhibiting much art, skill, or contrivance; dexterous; skillful. He too artful a writer to set down
• PRACTICK
  Practice. Chaucer.
• PRACTICALITY
  The quality or state of being practical; practicalness.
• ARTFULLY
  In an artful manner; with art or cunning; skillfully; dexterously; craftily.
• PRACTICALNESS
  See PRACTICALITY
• DECEITFULLY
  With intent to deceive.
• PRACTICALIZE
  To render practical. "Practicalizing influences." J. S. Mill.
• CUNNING
  1. Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii.
• CUNNER
  A small edible fish of the Atlantic coast (Ctenolabrus adspersus); -- called also chogset, burgall, blue perch, and bait stealer. A small shellfish; the limpet or patella.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DECEITFULNESS
  1. The disposition to deceive; as, a man's deceitfulness may be habitual. 2. The quality of being deceitful; as, the deceitfulness of a man's practices. 3. Tendency to mislead or deceive. "The deceitfulness of riches." Matt. xiii. 22.
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• UNSKILLFUL
  1. Not skillful; inexperienced; awkward; bungling; as, an unskillful surgeon or mechanic; an unskillful logician. 2. Lacking discernment; injudicious; ignorant. Though it make the unskillful laugh, can not but make the judicious grieve. Shak. --
• UNCUNNINGLY
  Ignorantly.
• OVERCUNNING
  Exceedingly or excessively cunning.
• UNARTFUL
  Lacking art or skill; artless. Congreve. -- Un*art"ful*ly, adv. Swift. Burke.
• SCUNNER
  To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at.
• UNCUNNING
  Ignorant. I am young and uncunning, as thou wost . Chaucer.
• STARTFUL
  Apt to start; skittish.