Down-to-earth

3 definitions found

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

  down-to-earth \down-to-earth\ adj.
     facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and
     observation rather than theory. Opposite of {idealistic},
     {unrealistic}, {impractical}, and {pie-in-the-sky}.
  
     Syn: hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic.


          [WordNet 1.5] Downtrod

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  down-to-earth
       adj : sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-earth
             approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense" [syn:
              {earthy}]

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

  31 Moby Thesaurus words for "down-to-earth":
     earthy, hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, matter, matter-of-fact,
     positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, pragmatical,
     rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, sane, scientific,
     scientistic, secular, sensible, sober, sober-minded, sound,
     sound-thinking, straight-thinking, unideal, unidealistic,
     unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian, worldly