Definitions for pragmatist

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pragmatist prag·ma·tist

Spelling: [prag-muh-tist]

IPA: /ˈpræg mə tɪst/

Pragmatist is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 579 anagrams from letters in pragmatist (aagimprstt).

Definitions for pragmatist

noun

1. a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action, thought, etc.; a practical person.
2. an advocate or adherent of philosophical pragmatism.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of pragmatism.

Origin of pragmatist

First recorded in 1630-40; pragmat(ic) + -ist

Examples for pragmatist

Bowles is a committed centrist, a fiscal conservative, and a pragmatist.

I ought to have considered fairly the pragmatist's theory of truth.

It was very satisfactory to discover definitely that he was not a pragmatist.

The pragmatist principle has an important bearing on religion.

I wish we would stop seeing him as either the prophet who will deliver us or the pragmatist who will deny us.

Hodder kept an open mind, but he became a pragmatist so far.

He's a conservative, but not a purist; he's a conviction politician—and a pragmatist too.

Obama took to it in his own way, as a pragmatist, a centrist, a man who believes in compromise.

A pragmatist and a moderate, she serves as a role model for other Blue Dog women running for election in Red states.

It is in answering this question that the pragmatist criterion fails.