What's the difference between pragmatic and pragmatist?

Pragmatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Pragmatical
  • (n.) One skilled in affairs.
  • (n.) A solemn public ordinance or decree.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This method seems the best way to evaluate the respective interactions of intonation with syntax and pragmatics.
  • (2) Although this operational classification does not produce etiologically homogeneous groups, it is believed to have pragmatic utility with respect to planning targeted surveillance and management strategies.
  • (3) The tasks which appeared to present the most difficulties for the patients were written spelling, pragmatic processing tasks like sentence disambiguation and proverb interpretation.
  • (4) By its pragmatic conception, modifications obtained by psychoactive agents are used (antidepressants of the group imipramine and IMAO, classical benzodiazepines and alprazolam, provocation controlled in laboratory) in order to strengthen innovating hypotheses and allow to elaborate useful treatment strategies for neuroses.
  • (5) The US defence industry needs pragmatic engagement, not principles.
  • (6) The focus of both studies was on children in their second year of life learning verbs in various pragmatic contexts.
  • (7) Sceptics said the US protections for journalists would make such a prosecution difficult and also cited pragmatic issues, such as the difficulty of extraditing Assange, an Australian.
  • (8) Trading decisions should be pragmatic, but they're not, especially when you're trying to recoup losses like he was."
  • (9) Writing on his blog for the Daily Telegraph , the former Conservative chairman said he would be voting Tory in Suffolk for pragmatic reasons to ensure his council did not fall into Labour, Lib Dem of Green hands.
  • (10) Abdella, now 19, illustrates the constrained choices and warped pragmatism that many here face.
  • (11) People are more pragmatic now than they were in the 1990s.
  • (12) This new breed of practitioner will be made up of persons who, for economic and pragmatic reasons, are concerned with accountability and who use single-subject designs to achieve it (Barlow et al., 1984).
  • (13) Following the announcement that Sky had been awarded the live TV rights to the Open and in light of financial developments since, the choice to amend the current contract from next year was a pragmatic one,” she said in a blog on the BBC website .
  • (14) "It's not about subjection or colonialism or dry pragmatism.
  • (15) I regret very much it’s come to this.” But Di Natale characterised the deal as reflective of his pragmatic leadership style.
  • (16) We will look at everything and we will take a view and it will be a pragmatic approach."
  • (17) The influence of social context on pragmatic skills of adults with mild to moderate mental retardation was examined.
  • (18) Another theory posits a split within the Kremlin elite over what to do about the problem of Navalny between the siloviki – Russia's powerful securocrats – and a more pragmatic group of political strategists who argue that the policy of prosecuting President Putin 's opponents, including dead ones such as Sergei Magnitsky , is a bad one.
  • (19) Mujica remains popular, but presidents cannot serve consecutive terms: the next election, on 26 October, will nevertheless represent a referendum on his pragmatic leftwing government.
  • (20) Quique Sánchez Flores, the fighter who prefers pragmatism to artistry at Watford Read more Flores is not a man to be discouraged easily and, having hung up his boots in 1997, the right-back – who was part of the Spain squad at the 1990 World Cup – finally lived the dream.

Pragmatist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who is pragmatic.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The prime minister, ever the pragmatist, sees a flawed alliance of states that aggregates its power to “fix stuff”.
  • (2) This led some to label him a moderate, though “pragmatist” might be more accurate.
  • (3) It's a belated recognition of this verdict that has spurred a new debate on the centre-right, with pragmatists from influential skills minister Matthew Hancock to key players at the Daily Telegraph moving beyond grudging acceptance of the existence of the minimum wage to making a more full-throated case for strengthening it.
  • (4) According to ETC, there are now several groupings, including the pragmatists, such as Branson, Lomborg and the American Enterprise Institute, which argue that geo-engineering is faster and cheaper than carbon taxes and emissions reductions, so just get on with it; and the theorists, such as the Royal Society and the Carnegie Institution for Science in the US which say we must have an emergency Plan B because we are heading for a certain climate catastrophe; meanwhile, businesses such as the Ocean Fertilisation Company and the Biochar Initiative see dollars.
  • (5) Apple CEO Tim Cook has, if nothing else, demonstrated an ability to be a pragmatist.
  • (6) Some would say the Sunderland manager – whose evolving side have one point from four games – was foolish to combat Arsenal with a 4-4-2 system featuring two orthodox wingers flanking a midfield anchored by the far from heavyweight David Vaughan and the debut-making Ki Sung-yueng but the Italian is not one of life's natural pragmatists.
  • (7) Avaaz is both global and globalised and its approach is less bleeding-heart liberal than hard-headed pragmatist.
  • (8) Dercon, who met Fayadh during a trip to Saudi Arabia two years ago, said he was a victim of the power struggles among reformists, pragmatists and ultraconservatives in the Gulf state.
  • (9) "He's an extreme pragmatist, less ideological even than David Cameron."
  • (10) She’s as good as anyone just because she hasn’t come from a private school with incredible wealth.” In policy terms, she is, like Blair, a pragmatist declaring that “what matters is what works”.
  • (11) The difference now is that pragmatists in Iran have a man to represent them, and he appears to enjoy political cover.
  • (12) The twists and shifts of a cynical, and increasingly unhappy, pragmatist briefly followed the same course as a principled idiosyncrat.
  • (13) You never know whether he would do any deals with Iran behind the scenes.” Nuclear weapons: how foreign hotspots could test Trump's finger on the trigger Read more Iran’s own pragmatists, notably the current president, Hassan Rouhani , however, don’t share that view, said Hadian.
  • (14) Is he an ideologue, a pragmatist or an opportunist?
  • (15) "[He] is an arch-pragmatist who makes terrible misjudgments, but he should not be demonised," says a western diplomat.
  • (16) Downplaying independence has enabled the SNP leader to present himself as a pragmatist, while retaining a claim to lead the only party committed only to Scotland .
  • (17) To be fair to the Brexiteers, the right in Britain has always consisted of an uneasy alliance between Tory pragmatists and change-hungry libertarians.
  • (18) Is there such a thing as Mayism, or is she simply a grey, autocratic pragmatist?
  • (19) He comes across as a courteous, efficient pragmatist, a director whose experience of everything from ads (he met his partner, Ceán Chaffin, while doing one for Coca-Cola) to music videos (including Madonna's Vogue ) to films has given him remarkable financial realism.
  • (20) O’Neill is keen to play the pragmatist, insisting third place and a play-off remains his primary objective, but he also had a feeling that a big result was in the offing in Athens.