pragmatically

In a pragmatic manner.

Adverb

  1. In a pragmatic manner.
    • "Well, there's no use crying over spilt milk," she said pragmatically.
    • To be pragmatically determined, it must be the case that the expression does not contribute new information to the structure of the discourse except as an unremarkable scenesetter. - 1986, Michael Shaun Rochemont, Focus...
  2. In terms of pragmatics.
    • a pragmatically irrelevant proposition

Origin

From pragmatic + -ally or pragmatical + -ly.

Forms

more pragmatically most pragmatically

Derived

apragmatically