Pragmatize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Pragmatize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.
Meaning
(intransitive) To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To behave in a pragmatic manner; to focus on the material or practical rather than abstractions.
Example Sentences
If he be a rationalist he may theorize. If he be a man of the world he may pragmatize.
One of the miraculous passages in the life of Mohammed himself is traced plausibly by Sprenger to such a pragmatized metaphor.
They are generically different ; they preach where they ought to worship, they pragmatize where they ought to pray, they discourse where they ought to send up the “Glory.”
A boiling kettle, a crying baby, a ringing telephone may interrupt him, but nothing (like a life plan) less immediate than those. It is all free play here, a refusal to pragmatize.
Word Forms
- pragmatizes
- pragmatizing
- pragmatized
- pragmatise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pragmatise, materialize, pragmaticize, pragmaticalize, concretize, actualize.
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