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Practically   /prˈæktəkli/  /prˈæktəkəli/   Listen
Practically

adverb
1.
Almost; nearly.  "He was practically the only guest at the party" , "There was practically no garden at all"
2.
In a practical manner.  "A brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely"
3.
(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely.  Synonym: much.  "Practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god"





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"Practically" Quotes from Famous Books



... unknown and, no doubt, forgotten language. It is a much more guttural and unpleasant tongue than any of the soft dialects now spoken in Polynesia. It belonged, I am convinced, to that yet earlier and more savage race which the Polynesians must have displaced; and as such it is now, I feel certain, practically irrecoverable." ...
— The Great Taboo • Grant Allen
... story connected with it. Agne was the king of Sweden about 220 B.C. In a war with the Finns, he killed their king, and captured his daughter Skiolfa. The princess, according to the custom of those days, became the wife, but practically the slave, of her captor. She was brought to Sweden, where Agne and his retainers got beastly drunk on the occasion of celebrating the memorial rites of her father. Skiolfa, with the assistance of her Finnish companions, passed a rope through ...
— Up The Baltic - Young America in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark • Oliver Optic
... us talk about anything that disturbs you, until you regain your strength. Why will you not try a little of this port wine? Miss Gordon brought it yesterday, and insisted I should give it to you, three times a day. It is very old and mellow. Look at things practically. God kept you alive for some wise purpose, and since you are obliged to face trouble, is it not better to arm yourself with all the physical vigor possible? ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... I have talked it over with Miss Alix, and I have practically decided to remain with her. You may tell that to Mr. Pollock ...
— Quill's Window • George Barr McCutcheon
... once more, to the parallel of horticulture. In the modern world, the gardening of men by themselves is practically restricted to the performance, not of selection, but of that other function of the gardener, the creation of conditions more favourable than those of the state of nature; to the end of facilitating the free expansion of the innate faculties ...
— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley


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