Hyphenation of practical

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word practical? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

prac-ti-cal

Definitions of practical:

1.	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
2.	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
3.	Being actually such in almost every respect A practical failure The once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin
4.	Having or put to a practical purpose or use Practical mathematics Practical applications of calculus

Synonyms of practical:

adj	practical, applicable, applicative, applicatory, functional, matter-of-fact, pragmatic, pragmatical, operable, practicable, serviceable, unimaginative, useful, working, applied, interoperable, concrete, possible, realistic, serviceable
adj	hardheaded, hard-nosed, pragmatic, realistic
adj	virtual, realistic
adj	applied

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.