pragmatic英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A man of business.
A busybody.
A public decree.

形容词 adj.

Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory.

— The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive.
Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature.

— Polybius’s pragmatic history is simply the history of affairs, as distinguished from the descriptive and often poetical character which much history before his time had.
Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome. obsolete

词形变化

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词汇关系

反义词

idealistic

衍生词

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词源

词源 1

From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).

词源 2

From Middle French pragmatique, from Late Latin pragmaticus (“relating to civil affair; in Latin, as a noun, a person versed in the law who furnished arguments and points to advocates and orators, a kind of attorney”), from Ancient Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikós, “active, versed in affairs”), from πρᾶγμα (prâgma, “a thing done, a fact”), in plural πράγματα (prágmata, “affairs, state affairs, public business, etc.”), from πράσσω (prássō, “to do”) (whence English practical).