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say it: PRAK-ti-klee
practically is an adverb meaning "almost; nearly". It carries 3 recorded senses.
almost; nearly
“practically the first thing I saw when I got off the train”
“he was practically the only guest at the party”
“there was practically no garden at all”
in a practical manner
“practically orientated institutions such as business schools”
“a brilliant man but so practically inept that he needed help to cross the road safely”
(degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely
“much the same thing happened every time”
“practically everything in Hinduism is the manifestation of a god”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for practically come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.