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🤔 Sensible and practical 🖼️ True to life 📚 About reality
realistic

realistic

5 5.6
Supporting the idea that the world exists even if we do not think about it
  • adjective
  • /ˌriːəˈlɪstɪk/
  • Specialized
translation icon : realista
  • Be realistic, there's no way, there's no reality to any of this.
  • realistic policy
  • realistic reform
  • more realistic

Examples

  • The story strikes a judicious balance between romantic idealism and realistic detail, and ends on an interestingly ambiguous note.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The artist's new painting offers a realistic portrayal of urban life, capturing the mundane details of everyday existence.

  • You're living in a realistic world.

    Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

  • The students' Internet perceptions, however, had changed to be more realistic and better informed.

    Academic text (2005)

  • The difference is, I come away with a realistic rather than idealistic world outlook.

    Blog text (34)

  • Achieving a realistic peace means balancing realism and idealism in our foreign policy.

    Academic text (2007)

  • In their discussion, the professor emphasized the need for realistic solutions to the environmental crisis that consider current technological limitations.

  • Her expectations for the project were realistic, taking into account the available resources and time constraints.

Antonyms

idealistic
  • Specialized
47 7.0

The belief that the mind makes reality rather than matter

How Romantic

Ruritanian
  • Literature
9.9
romantic
  • NSFW
636 3.9
fanciful
12 6.0
realistic
  • Specialized
5 5.6

Surface Forms

realistic positive
realer comparative
realist superlative

Morphology

realistic = real (semi-transparent) = real + istic

Form is transparently 'real' + '-istic', but the sense referring specifically to the philosophical doctrine 'realism' is specialized and may not be inferable from 'real' alone.

Etymology

Realistic comes from the root real and the Latin res meaning 'thing' or 'reality'. So a 'realistic' view in philosophy is one that says the things of the world are really there even when people are not thinking about them.