'Realistic' definitions:
Definition of 'realistic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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]
adjective
Representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" [syn: naturalistic, realistic]
adjective
Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism; "a realistic system of thought"
Definition of 'Realistic'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'realistic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- animist,
- animistic,
- astute,
- atomistic,
- authentic,
- banausic,
- bona fide,
- breadwinning,
- breathing,
- businesslike,
- candid,
- card-carrying,
- characteristic,
- commercial,
- commonsense,
- cosmotheistic,
- Cyrenaic,
- delineative,
- depictive,
- descriptive,
- dinkum,
- distinctive,
- distinguishing,
- down-to-earth,
- earthy,
- eclectic,
- Eleatic,
- empirical,
- Epicurean,
- 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,
- Marxian,
- Marxist,
- materialist,
- materialistic,
- matter-of-fact,
- mechanist,
- mechanistic,
- Megarian,
- 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,
- Stoic,
- 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