pragmatically
advEtymology From pragmatic + -ally or pragmatical + -ly.
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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 in Generative Grammar, page 58:
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In terms of pragmatics.
- a pragmatically irrelevant proposition
- Derived terms
- apragmatically