practical

concerned with actual use or practice

• “he is a very practical person”
• “the idea had no practical application”
• “a practical knowledge of Japanese”
• “woodworking is a practical art”

guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory

• “a hardheaded appraisal of our position”
• “a hard-nosed labor leader”
• “completely practical in his approach to business”
• “not ideology but pragmatic politics”

being actually such in almost every respect

• “a practical failure”
• “the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin”

having or put to a practical purpose or use

• “practical mathematics”
• “practical applications of calculus”