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practical

adjective
  1. Resulting from experience or practice: practiced. See knowledge
  2. Serving or capable of serving a useful purpose: functional, handy, practicable, serviceable, useful, utilitarian. See used
  3. Having or indicating an awareness of things as they really are: down-to-earth, hard, hardheaded, matter-of-fact, objective, pragmatic, pragmatical, prosaic, realistic, sober, tough-minded, unromantic. See excite, real
  4. Involved in the essential nature of something but not shown or developed: implicit, virtual. See be, show

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