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Synonyms for realistic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : ree-uh-lis-tik
Phonetic Transcription : ˌri əˈlɪs tɪk

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Définition of realistic

Origin :
  • "true to reality" (of art, literature, etc.), 1829; "involving a practical view of life" (opposed to idealistic), 1831; from realist + -ic. Related: Realistically.
  • adj sensible, matter-of-fact
  • adj genuine
Example sentences :
  • Madame Deberle admired the realistic manner in which she died in a piece she played.
  • Extract from : « A Zola Dictionary » by J. G. Patterson
  • In style and character-drawing it is realistic in the best sense.
  • Extract from : « The Lonely Way--Intermezzo--Countess Mizzie » by Arthur Schnitzler
  • If it was play, it was too realistic for the nerves even of a mountain girl.
  • Extract from : « Nan of Music Mountain » by Frank H. Spearman
  • Uncle's narratives had been so realistic that I began to dread Pierre's departure.
  • Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee
  • This particular editor believed that a short story should be realistic.
  • Extract from : « Blazed Trail Stories » by Stewart Edward White
  • There is no doubt that we are still far from this last phase of the realistic period.
  • Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
  • They are realistic enough, but only in rare passages are they beautiful.
  • Extract from : « Personality in Literature » by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
  • The Novellieri were thus the realists of their day and of them all Bandello was the most realistic.
  • Extract from : « The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 » by William Painter
  • It gave the first realistic smack of the filthy business of war.
  • Extract from : « Four Days » by Hetty Hemenway
  • They are too realistic,—and, after all, the ideal is the real.
  • Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan

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