practically

[prac·ti·cal·ly]

Practically means nearly, like being practically broke if you have three dollars left in the whole world. It also means done in a practical way – if you wear sneakers on a long walk, you’re dressed practically.

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1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

Adverb
(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely; "much the same thing happened every time"

Adverb
almost; "he was practically the only guest at the party"


adv.
In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

adv.
By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.

adv.
In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.

adv.
Almost.


Practically

Prac"ti*cal*ly , adv. 1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3. In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.

1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.

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Usage Examples

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

I take computers practically apart and put them back together. I have a supercomputer I built over the years out of different computers.

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

If all Church power vests in the clergy, then the people are practically bound to passive obedience in all matters of faith and practice for all right of private judgment is then denied.

Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

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Other Usage Examples

I tend to head for what's amusing because a lot of things aren't happy. But usually you can find a funny side to practically anything.

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

I don't think there's any independent cartoonist whose stuff I don't like or respect in at least some way or another. We're all marginal laborers - we're practically medical oddities - so I don't see why we can't all be nice to each other.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

It does not just happen. It is disclosed by science that practically one-half of trained intellectual resources are being mobilized for murderous purposes.

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