- practical
- adj1. commonplace, matter-of-fact, Sl. nuts-and-bolts, workaday, everyday, day-to-day; mundane, ordinary, customary, usual, undistinguished.2. utilitarian, useful, Obs. utile, banausic; pragmatic, applicatory, efficient, workable, serviceable; efficacious, effective, working; handy, profitable, worthwhile, valuable, advantageous.3. experienced, knowing, versed, practiced, skilled, trained; proficient, qualified, competent, capable, able, skillful.4. sensible, down-to-earth, realistic, wise, sagacious; businesslike, all-business, hard-nosed, hard-headed, tough, unsentimental, unromantic; judicious, prudent, politic, expedient, shrewd, canny, sharp, astute, clever; cunning, crafty, subtle.5. humdrum, prosaic, dull, vapid, flat, insipid, unanimated; tedious, tiresome, boring, uninteresting; banal, trite, hackneyed, platitudinous, bromidic.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.