for all practical purposes

1. 1.

   in every practical sense

   “to all intents and purposes the case is closed”

   “the rest are for all practical purposes useless”

   Synonymsto all intents and purposesfor all intents and purposes

Questions about for all practical purposes

What does for all practical purposes mean?

for all practical purposes means "in every practical sense".

What is another word for for all practical purposes?

Close synonyms include to all intents and purposes, for all intents and purposes. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is for all practical purposes a common word?

for all practical purposes is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.