practical

英 ['præktɪk(ə)l] 美['præktɪkl]

• adj. 实际的；实用性的

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"

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"

3. being actually such in almost every respect;

"a practical failure"

"the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"

4. having or put to a practical purpose or use;

"practical mathematics"

"practical applications of calculus"