unrealistic expectation
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4.6
- noun
- /ˌʌnriˈælɪstɪk ˌɛkspɛkˈteɪʃən/
:
expectativa irrealista
- Many students have unrealistic expectations about how quickly they can learn a new language.
- sometimes have unrealistic expectations
- unrealistic expectations create
- often have unrealistic expectations
So don't have unrealistic expectations about bad people.
- So don't have unrealistic expectations about bad people.
- He said, why are you giving yourself these unrealistic expectations?
- You know, I had an unrealistic expectation.
- So a lot of this is rooted in paternalism that people can't, as a patient, understand these odds and they have unrealistic expectations.
- Now here the rest of this because you see folks, unrealistic expectations or the seedbed of depression.
- One thing I noticed really recently, still unrealistic expectations of myself and other people.
- So their unrealistic expectations are the reason for your realistic expectations.
- And my dad said it would, it would it would make it make me have unrealistic expectations for what girls would do in bed.
Examples
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One of the issues arises from unrealistic expectations of non-specialists in the field.
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One of the dangers is that people go into the experience with unrealistic expectations for cure.
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But I know people, they have unrealistic expectations of other people.
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Most important, however, seems to have been unrealistic expectations for the region itself.
Academic text (1992) -
One thing I noticed really recently, still unrealistic expectations of myself and other people.
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I quit reading Christian romance novels years ago due to unrealistic expectations for my husband.
Blog text (13) -
Because you see, folks, unrealistic expectations are the seedbed of depression.
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In an increasingly crowded world, we have to take great care not to engender unrealistic expectations.
Academic text (1993) -
For the adolescent individual, an example of incongruence would be when parents place unrealistic expectations on their children.
Academic text (2005) -
Patients may have unrealistic expectations of being "cured" by an experimental treatment or might fear experiencing harm.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
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4.1
Believing something you want will happen even though it is unlikely
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6.8
A hope or plan that is not likely to happen
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7.5
An idea or plan that is unlikely to happen
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6.8
A hope for something you cannot achieve
How Realistic
- Literature
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3.4
8
3.7
8
4.6
- Informal
23
6.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase's meaning is directly compositional: 'unrealistic' (= not realistic) modifies 'expectation' (= a belief about the future), yielding an expectation that is not reasonable or likely. This straightforward negation + noun structure is common cross-linguistically and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
Unrealistic expectation breaks into unrealistic ('not real') and expectation ('what you expect'), and it creates the image of hoping for something impossible, like trying to fly without wings. That's why it means 'an expectation that is not practical or likely to happen'.