The phrase "a practical world" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a world that is focused on practicality, realism, or functionality, often in contrast to idealism or theory.
Example: "In a practical world, solutions must be effective and efficient, addressing real-life challenges faced by individuals and communities."
Alternatives: "a realistic world" or "a pragmatic world".
"They are an advocacy group, yes, but they live in a practical world," he said.
Adults live in a practical world; infants do not have immediate practical applications.
In a practical world, particularly one in which government deficits and basic human needs abound, one may reasonably ask whether such public largesse can be afforded to such a minority of special interest: particle physicists.
As he points out, the opening stanza of Auburn University's creed — "I believe that this is a practical world and that I can count only on what I earn" — conveys a certain kind of hostility to the world of ideas in which philosophy and for that matter the rest of the humanities plainly reside.
The exact opposite of a practical adult in a practical world.
So from a passionate writer in a practical world, here's my advice: Let it happen.
He is hyperactive like Harold Bloom, audacious like Christopher Hitchens and a practical man of the world like Alan Greenspan.
Being a practical man of the world, Watkins decided that these alignments represented ancient thoroughfares, routes along which goods such as salt, and craftsmen like flint knappers, traversed the countryside.
On the other side is Narendra Modi, 62, calm and shrewd, a practical man of the world, a type of Indian male who addresses women as "mothers and sisters," who is the most popular leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, who carries with him the exceptional pride of a self-made man who has vanquished many foes in his life.
Pan Am felt to us as if it had a living, breathing soul, and so the company's essence was much more than a merely practical world.
When winter weather slows, or brings to a halt, the daily, practical world of jobs and chores, the noise and rush subside for a few days.
