having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"
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"
precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause; "a determinate distance"; "a determinate number"; "determinate variations in animals"
not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex; "determinate growth"
remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized"
think rationally; employ logic or reason; "When one wonders why one is doing certain things, one should rationalize"
structure and run according to rational or scientific principles in order to achieve desired results; "We rationalized the factory's production and raised profits"
not on target; "the kick was wide"; "the arrow was wide of the mark"; "a claim that was wide of the truth"
having ample fabric; "the current taste for wide trousers"; "a full skirt"
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other; "wide roads"; "a wide necktie"; "wide margins"; "three feet wide"; "a river two miles broad"; "broad shoulders"; "a broad river"
great in degree; "won by a wide margin"
to or over a great extent or range; far; "wandered wide through many lands"; "he traveled widely"
with or by a broad space; "stand with legs wide apart"; "ran wide around left end"
far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander"
to the fullest extent possible; "open your eyes wide"; "with the throttle wide open"
granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline; "direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive"; "permissive parents"