empractical

English

Etymology

From em- +‎ practical? Coined by Karl Bühler.

Adjective

empractical (comparative more empractical, superlative most empractical)

1. (linguistics) Of or relating to a form of communication that is incidental to some practical activity, characterized by fragmentary utterances and more silence than a conversation.

   A surgeon performing an operation may make empractical utterances to her assistant to request tools, such as "scalpel".

See also

• symphysical
• sympractical
• synsemantic

Anagrams

• malpractice