English > realistic: 3 senses > adjective 1| Meaning | Aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are. |
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| Examples | - "a realistic description"
- "a realistic view of the possibilities"
- "a realistic appraisal of our chances"
- "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans"
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| Narrower | down-to-earth, earthy | sensible and practical |
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| graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid | Evoking lifelike images within the mind |
| hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic | Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory |
| living | true to life |
| true-to-life, true to life | representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are |
| veridical, real | coinciding with reality |
| virtual, practical | actually such in almost every respect |
| See also | possible | capable of happening / happening or existing |
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| practical | concerned with actual use or practice |
| real, existent | Being or occurring in fact or actuality |
| Opposite | unrealistic | not realistic |
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| Spanish | realista, realístico |
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| Catalan | realista |
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| Nouns | realist | a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly |
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| Adverbs | realistically | in a realistic manner |
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