practic

From Middle English practic, practik, partly from Old French practique and partly from its etymon, Late Latin prācticus (“active”), from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “I do”).^[1][2] Doublet of practico.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹæktɪk/

practic (plural practics)

1. A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

practic (comparative more practic, superlative most practic)

1. (archaic) Practical.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , II.i.4.3:

     They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].

2. (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

• practical

• practise

• “practic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “practic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

• IPA^(key): /ˈprak.tik/
• Rhymes: -aktik
• Hyphenation: prac‧tic

Borrowed from French pratique, from Latin practicus.

practic m or n (feminine singular practică, masculine plural practici, feminine and neuter plural practice)

1. practical (relating to practise)
2. practical (feasible, applicable to reality)

practic

1. practically
2. (colloquial, loosely) basically, pretty much

practic

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of practica

• “practic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025