English-French translations for pragmatic

• pragmatique
  Je salue cette approche pragmatique. I welcome this pragmatic approach.
  Nous devons adopter une attitude plus pragmatique à cet égard. We need a more pragmatic approach here.
  L'approche de l'UE est très pragmatique. The EU approach is a very pragmatic one.

Definition of pragmatic

• Practical, concerned with making decisions and actions that are useful in practice, not just theory
• Philosophical; dealing with causes, reasons, and effects, rather than with details and circumstances; said of literature
• Interfering in the affairs of others; officious; meddlesome
• A man of business
• A public decree

Examples

• The sturdy furniture in the student lounge was pragmatic, but unattractive.

Related words

• pragmatically
• pragmatics
• pragmatical
• ethnopragmatics