Both Uses
pragmatic
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
(Edited)
- There was a single car in the clinic parking lot, the nurse's powder-blue Fairlane, conservative and pragmatic and newer than his own.
p. 11.9 *pragmatic = practical
- I'm much more pragmatic now.
p. 334.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(pragmatic) concerned with practical matters -- especially where quick results and/or practical experience triumph over theory
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)