[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

practical \prac"tical\, a. l. practicus active, gr. ? fit for
   doing or performing, practical, active, fr. ? to do, work,
   effect: cf. f. pratique, formerly also practique. cf.
   pragmatic, practice.
   1. of or pertaining to practice or action.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster

   3. evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge
      to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.
      1913 webster

   4. derived from practice; as, practical skill.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
pragmatic practice ideal theoretical practical joke 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

practical
     adj 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" ant: impractical
     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" syn: hardheaded, hard-nosed, pragmatic
     3: being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical
        failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
        syn: virtuala, practicala
     4: having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical
        mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"
see also:
impractical hardheaded hard-nosed pragmatic virtuala practicala 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

147 moby thesaurus words for "practical":
   achievable, actable, adaptable, advantageous, appliable,
   applicable, applied, appropriate, attainable, balanced, banausic,
   beneficial, breadwinning, businesslike, commercial, commodious,
   commonsense, compassable, compliant, constructive, convenient,
   cool, coolheaded, doable, down-to-earth, ductile, earthy,
   effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, empirical,
   employable, everyday, expedient, exploitable, feasible, field,
   fitting, flexible, foolproof, functional, go, good for, handy,
   hard, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hardheaded, helpful, hoaxproof,
   judicious, levelheaded, logical, malleable, manageable,
   maneuverable, manipulable, manipulatable, materialistic,
   matter-of-fact, moneymaking, mundane, negotiable,
   not born yesterday, of general utility, of help, of service,
   of use, old, old-time, operable, operatable, operational,
   operative, ordinary, overcomable, performable, personal,
   philosophical, pliable, pliant, positivistic, practicable,
   practical-minded, practiced, pragmatic, pragmatical, proper,
   prosaic, rational, realist, realistic, realizable, reasonable,
   reusable, sane, scientific, scientistic, seasoned, secular,
   sensible, serviceable, skilled, sober, sober-minded, sophisticated,
   sound, sound-thinking, straight-thinking, superable, surmountable,
   tough-minded, tractable, uncullible, undeceivable, undeludable,
   undupable, unfoolable, ungullible, unhoaxable, unideal,
   unidealistic, unromantic, unseduceable, unsentimental,
   untroublesome, usable, useable, useful, utilitarian, utilizable,
   versed, vet, veteran, viable, virtual, well-balanced, wieldable,
   wieldy, wise, workable, workaday, workday, working, worldly,
   yielding

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