Naturalistic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Naturalistic \Nat`u*ral*is"tic\, a.
     1. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
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     2. Closely resembling nature; realistic. "Naturalistic bit of
        pantomime." --W. D. Howells.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  naturalistic
       adj : representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic
             portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic
             colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" [syn: {realistic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  142 Moby Thesaurus words for "naturalistic":
     Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic,
     animist, animistic, atomistic, authentic, bona fide, candid,
     card-carrying, characteristic, commonsense, cosmotheistic,
     delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, distinctive,
     distinguishing, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, exemplary,
     existential, expositive, expressive, faithful,
     following the letter, general, genuine, good, graphic, hedonic,
     hedonist, hedonistic, honest, honest-to-God, humanist, humanistic,
     hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, inartificial,
     instrumentalist, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal,
     materialist, materialistic, mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical,
     monistic, natural, naturalist, naturistic, nominalist, normal,
     orderly, original, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist,
     positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, pure, quintessential,
     rationalistic, real, realist, realistic, regular, representative,
     rightful, sample, scholastic, sensationalistic, simon-pure, simple,
     sincere, sterling, sure-enough, syncretistic, theistic,
     transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, true to form, true to life,
     true to nature, true to reality, true to type, typal, typic,
     typical, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming,
     uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised,
     undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unexceptional,
     unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious,
     unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended,
     unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious,
     unsynthetic, unvarnished, usual, utilitarian, verbal, verbatim,
     veridical, verisimilar, vitalistic, vivid, voluntarist,
     voluntaristic, well-drawn, word-for-word