Practically and Practical

adverb

• Almost; nearly.
  • usage: "practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train"; "he was practically the only guest at the party"; "there was practically no garden at all"
• In a practical manner.
  • usage: "practically orientated institutions such as business schools"; "a brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely"
• Degree adverb used before a noun phrase. ( for all practical purposes but not completely)
  • usage: "much the same thing happened every time"; "practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god"
  • synonyms: much

• (adv.) By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject.
• (adv.) In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
• (adv.) In practice or use; as, a medicine practically safe; theoretically wrong, but practically right.
• (adv.) Almost.

adjective

• Concerned with actual use or practice.
  • usage: "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.
  • usage: "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
  • synonyms: hardheaded, hard-nosed, pragmatic
• Being actually such in almost every respect.
  • usage: "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
  • synonyms: virtual
• Having or put to a practical purpose or use.
  • usage: "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"

• (a.) Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry.
• (a.) Of or pertaining to practice or action.
• (a.) Derived from practice; as, practical skill.
• (a.) Evincing practice or skill; capable of applying knowledge to some useful end; as, a practical man; a practical mind.