Realistic

3 definitions found

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

  Realistic \Re`al*is"tic\ (-[i^]s"t[i^]k), a.
     Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the
     realists; characterized by realism rather than by
     imagination.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  realistic
       adj 1: aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are;
              "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" [ant: {unrealistic}]
       2: representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic
          portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic
          colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" [syn: {naturalistic}]
       3: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism; "a
          realistic system of thought"

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

  200 Moby Thesaurus words for "realistic":
     Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic,
     animist, animistic, astute, atomistic, authentic, banausic,
     bona fide, breadwinning, breathing, businesslike, candid,
     card-carrying, characteristic, commercial, commonsense,
     cosmotheistic, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum,
     distinctive, distinguishing, down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic,
     empirical, eudaemonistic, exemplary, existential, expositive,
     expressive, faithful, following the letter, general, genuine, good,
     graphic, hard, hard-boiled, hard-nosed, hardheaded, hedonic,
     hedonist, hedonistic, hoaxproof, honest, honest-to-God, humanist,
     humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, inartificial,
     instrumentalist, lawful, legitimate, level-headed, lifelike,
     literal, living, materialist, materialistic, matter-of-fact,
     mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, moneymaking, monistic,
     natural, naturalist, naturalistic, naturistic, no-nonsense,
     nominalist, normal, not born yesterday, orderly, original,
     panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, practical,
     practical-minded, pragmatic, pragmatical, pragmatist, prosaic,
     prudent, pure, quintessential, rational, rationalistic, real,
     realist, reasonable, regular, representative, rightful, sample,
     sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic, secular,
     sensationalistic, sensible, shrewd, simon-pure, simple, sincere,
     sober, sober-minded, sophisticated, sound, sound-thinking,
     speaking, sterling, straight-thinking, sure-enough, syncretistic,
     theistic, to the life, tough, tough-minded, 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, uncullible, undeceivable,
     undeludable, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, undupable,
     unexaggerated, unexceptional, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned,
     unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unfoolable, ungullible,
     unhoaxable, unideal, unidealistic, unimagined, unimitated,
     uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic,
     unseduceable, unsentimental, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic,
     unvarnished, usual, utilitarian, verbal, verbatim, veridical,
     verisimilar, vitalistic, vivid, voluntarist, voluntaristic,
     well-drawn, wise, word-for-word, workaday, workday, working,
     worldly