naturalistic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: nat=u=ral=is=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

naturalistic, a. 

•  Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.  [1913 Webster]
•  Closely resembling nature; realistic.  W. D. Howells.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

naturalistic, adj.
1 imitating nature closely; lifelike.
2 of or according to naturalism.
3 of natural history.

Derivative

naturalistically adv.

THESAURUS

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