Word Meanings - PRACTICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. 3. Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind. 4. Derived from practice; as, practical skill. Practical joke, a joke put in practice; a joke the fun of which consists in something done, in distinction from something said; esp., a trick played upon a person.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRACTICAL)

• Virtual
• Potential
• implied
• constructive
• practical
• substantial
• indirect
• essential
• implicit

Related words: (words related to PRACTICAL)

• IMPLIEDLY
  By implication or inference. Bp. Montagu.
• IMPLICITNESS
  State or quality of being implicit.
• IMPLICITY
  Implicitness. Cotgrave.
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• POTENTIAL
  1. Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential. "And hath in his effect a voice potential." Shak. 2. Existing in possibility, not in actuality. "A potential hero." Carlyle. Potential existence means merely
• SUBSTANTIALS
  Essential parts. Ayliffe.
• 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.
• POTENTIALITY
  The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.
• POTENTIALLY
  1. With power; potently. 2. In a potential manner; possibly, not positively. The duration of human souls is only potentially infinite. Bentley.
• 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.
• IMPLICITLY
  1. In an implicit manner; without reserve; with unreserved confidence. Not to dispute the methods of his providence, but humbly and implicitly to acquiesce in and adore them. Atterbury. 2. By implication; impliedly; as, to deny the providence of
• IMPLICIT
  1. Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope. 2. Tacitly comprised; fairly to be understood, though not expressed in words; implied; as, an implicit contract or agreement. South. 3. Resting
• CONSTRUCTIVE
  1. Having ability to construct or form; employed in construction; as, to exhibit constructive power. The constructive fingers of Watts. Emerson. 2. Derived from, or depending on, construction or interpretation; not directly expressed, but inferred.
• INDIRECTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness. 2. Deviation from an upright or straightforward course; unfairness; dishonesty. W. Montagu.
• ESSENTIAL
  Necessary; indispensable; -- said of those tones which constitute a chord, in distinction from ornamental or passing tones. (more info) 1. Belonging to the essence, or that which makes an object, or class of objects, what it is. Majestic as the
• INDIRECTION
  Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness. "By indirections find directions out." Shak.
• IMPLICATIVE
  Tending to implicate.
• IMPLICATION
  1. The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated. Three principal causes of firmness are. the grossness, the quiet contact, and the implication of component parts. Boyle. 2. An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an
• VIRTUAL
  1. Having the power of acting or of invisible efficacy without the agency of the material or sensible part; potential; energizing. Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance. Bacon. Every kind that lives, Fomented
• SUBSTANTIALITY
  The quality or state of being substantial; corporiety; materiality. The soul is a stranger to such gross substantiality. Glanvill.
• SIMPLIFICATION
  The act of simplifying. A. Smith.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• INSUBSTANTIAL
  Unsubstantial; not real or strong. "Insubstantial pageant." Shak.
• SUPERSUBSTANTIAL
  More than substantial; spiritual. "The heavenly supersubstantial bread." Jer. Taylor.
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• INSUBSTANTIALITY
  Unsubstantiality; unreality.
• CONSUBSTANTIALLY
  In a consubstantial manner; with identity of substance or nature.
• SIMPLICIAN
  One who is simple. Arnway.
• UNSUBSTANTIALIZE
  To make unsubstantial.
• CONSUBSTANTIALISM
  The doctrine of consubstantiation.