Practical has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | Mentally the Third Men were indeed very unlike their predecessors. Their intelligence was in some ways no less agile; but it was more cunning than intellectual, more practical than theoretical. They were interested more in the world of sense-experience than in the world of abstract reason, and again far more in living things than in the lifeless. They excelled in certain kinds of art, and indeed also in some fields of science. But they were led into science more through practical, aesthetic or religious needs than through intellectual curiosity. In mathematics, for instance (helped greatly by the duodecimal system, which resulted from their having twelve fingers), they became wonderful calculators; yet they never had the curiosity to inquire into the essential nature of number. Nor, in physics, were they ever led to discover the more obscure properties of space. They were, indeed, strangely devoid of curiosity. Hence, though sometimes capable of a penetrating mystical intuition, they never seriously disciplined themselves under philosophy, nor tried to relate their mystical intuitions with the rest of their experience. | |
| 2. | It's practical to have a laptop. | |
| 3. | Your suggestion is of no practical use. | |
| 4. | As a rule, the more fundamental a new truth, the greater will be its practical possibilities. | |
| 5. | You will be disliked by girls if you play practical jokes on them. | |
| 6. | Don't carry a practical joke too far. | |
| 7. | Russell was a brilliant philosopher, but even the simplest practical task was quite beyond him. | |
| 8. | The method was too expensive to be practical. | |
| 9. | Such skills could be put to many practical uses. | |
| 10. | The English are a practical people. |