solving problems in a practical and sensible way rather than by having fixed ideas or theories synonym realistic实用的;讲求实效的;务实的 a pragmatic approach to management problems 对管理问题采取的务实做法
Extra ExamplesThey're pragmatic about the spending cuts. 他们在削减开支方面很务实。 We must be ruthlessly pragmatic and intensely focused. 我们必须坚定地坚持务实态度,必须专心致志。
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Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the senses ‘busy, interfering, conceited’): via Latin from Greek pragmatikos ‘relating to fact’, from pragma ‘deed’ (from the stem of prattein ‘do’). The current senses date from the mid 19th cent.