late 16th cent. (in the senses busy, interfering, conceited): via Latin from Greek pragmatikosrelating to fact, from pragmadeed (from the stem of pratteindo). The current sense dates from the mid 19th cent
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noun
1.concerned with practical matters;
a matter-of-fact (or pragmatic) approach to the problem
2.of or concerning the theory of pragmatism
3.guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory;