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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial for all practical purposes has 1 sense
- for all practical purposes(r = adv.all) for all intents and purposes, to all intents and purposes - in every practical sense; "to all intents and purposes the case is closed"; "the rest are for all practical purposes useless"
THESAURUS
for all practical purposes
all in all, almost entirely, approximately, approximatively, by and large, chiefly, effectually, essentially, for practical purposes, generally, generally speaking, in round numbers, in the main, mainly, more or less, mostly, on balance, on the whole, practically, roughly, roughly speaking, roundly, say, substantially, virtually
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