Meaning and example
an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land
The passage used "pragmatic" to mean an imperial decree that becomes part of the fundamental law of the land.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.855 places pragmatic in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 97.3% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 97.3%
recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like
- Known by
- 97.3%
speed up the progress of; facilitate
- Known by
- 97.2%
so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
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- 97.4%
intending or showing kindness
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- 97.2%
representing the perfect example of a class or quality
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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