pragmatic
prag-MAT-ikadjMeaning dealing with things sensibly and practically
Memory hook prag-MAT-ic: put down a MAT and get across. The path to the barn is all mud, so Dev doesn’t wish it away; he lays down an old mat and walks right over. He is pragmatic.
Rather than wait years for a new bridge, the pragmatic villagers built a ferry.
In context While her friends argued over the perfect party theme, Maya took a pragmatic approach: she checked the budget, counted the chairs and ordered the pizza.
Similar practical, sensible, realistic, down-to-earth
Opposite idealistic, impractical, quixotic
From Greek pragmatikos, “businesslike, practical,” from pragma, “a deed, a thing done.”