Die woordeboekdefinisie van die woord "pragmaties" is:
Adjektief:\nOm dinge sinvol en realisties te hanteer op 'n manier wat gebaseer is op praktiese eerder as teoretiese oorwegings.
Selfstandige naamwoord:\n'n Persoon wat meer gelei word deur praktiese oorwegings as deur ideale of teorie.
1. A dragon learns only to further his pragmatic desires to conquer his surroundings and improve his lot in life.
2. Heaviness, or the lack of it, arrives in a more pragmatic and immediate way.
3. One day at a time, she thought pushing the anxiety away, keeping her thoughts pragmatic.
4. Seffie and Mike were far too pragmatic to risk their necks for people they did not know without a damn good reason.
5. Miranda was nothing if not pragmatic, and while she was not happy about what he had done, she was apparently not going to waste time being angry about it.