realistic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: re=al=is=tic

CIDE DICTIONARY

realistic, a. 

 Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

realistic, adj.
1 regarding things as they are; following a policy of realism.
2 based on facts rather than ideals.

Derivative

realistically adv.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

realistic

Truth

N truth, fact, reality, plain fact, plain matter of fact, nature, truth, verity, gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth, orthodoxy, authenticity, veracity, correctness, correctitude, accuracy, exactitude, exactness, preciseness, precision, delicacy, rigor, mathematical precision, punctuality, clockwork precision, conformity to rule, nicety, orthology, ipsissima verba, realism, plain truth, honest truth, sober truth, naked truth, unalloyed truth, unqualified truth, stern truth, exact truth, intrinsic truth, nuda veritas, the very thing, not an illusion, real Simon Pure, unvarnished tale, unvarnished truth, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the trut, just the thing, real, actual, veritable, true, right, correct, certain, substantially true, categorically true, definitively true, true to the letter, true as gospel, unimpeachable, veracious, unreconfuted, unconfuted, unideal, unimagined, realistic, exact, accurate, definite, precise, well-defined, just, just so, so, strict, severe, close, literal, rigid, rigorous, scrupulous, religiously exact, punctual, mathematical, scientific, faithful, constant, unerring, curious, particular, nice, delicate, fine, clean-cut, clear-cut, verified, empirically true, experimentally verified, substantiated, proven (demonstrated), rigorously true, unquestionably true, true by definition, genuine, authentic, legitimate, orthodox, official, ex officio, pure, natural, sound, sterling, unsophisticated, unadulterated, unvarnished, unalloyed, uncolored, in its true colors, pukka, well-grounded, well founded, solid, substantial, tangible, valid, undistorted, undisguised, unaffected, unexaggerated, unromantic, unflattering, truly, verily, indeed, really, in reality, with truth, certainly, actually, in effect, exactly, ad amussim, verbatim, verbatim et literatim, word for word, literally, literatim, totidem vervis, sic, to the letter, chapter and verse, ipsissimis verbis, ad unguem, to an inch, to a nicety, to a hair, to a tittle, to a turn, to a T, au pied de la lettre, neither more nor less, in every respect, in all respects, sous tous les rapports, at any rate, at all events, strictly speaking, the truth is, the fact is, rem acu tetigisti, en suivant la verite, ex facto jus oritur, la verita e figlia del empo, locos y ninos dicen la verdad, crazy people and children tell the truth, nihil est veritatis luce dulcius, veritas nunquam perit, veritatem dies aperit, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, just the facts, ma'am, just the facts.