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naturalistic

naturalistic adjective: having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.

Adjective (1)

naturalistic (not comparable)

  1. Having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.
    • The genius of High Hopes is in its director's ability to push both his characters and his audience to places they would never think of going. Although the situations are always naturalistic (there is not even any of the arty mise en scene Frears used in Sammy and Rosy or My Beautiful Laundrette)...1989 April 22, Michael Bronski, “National Health?”, in Gay Community News, page 6
  2. Of, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
    • Each core autistic participant engaged in three naturalistic conversations around the topic of loneliness with: (1) a familiar, chosen conversation partner; (2) a non-autistic stranger and (3) an autistic stranger.2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 12...
    1. (specifically) Recreational; nontherapeutic; self-administered.

Adjective (2)

naturalistic (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.

naturalistic meaning in Urdu and Malayalam

naturalistic in Urdu

فطریت پسندانہ, طبیعی

naturalistic in Malayalam

real-life, realistic, true-to-life
പ്രകൃത്യനുസരണമായ, യഥാതഥമായ, യഥാതഥമായി ചിത്രീകരിച്ച, യഥാർത്ഥ വർണ്ണനാപരമായ, ജീവൻതുടിക്കുന്ന, വാസ്തവികമായ

Examples of naturalistic in a sentence

  • Zeffirelli’s naturalistic sets, depicting a Latin Quarter peopled with crowds of Parisian streetfolk, revelers, merchants and children.
  • With hyper pacing and naturalistic (nonactorish) performances, Kids earns its claimed authenticity.
  • "And despite all the weird events the dialogue is naturalistic and light on technobabble", says Peter.

All 18 example sentences with naturalistic

Origin of naturalistic

From natural + -istic.

From naturalist + -ic.

Words formed from naturalistic

Phrases with naturalistic

Questions about naturalistic

What does naturalistic mean?
Naturalistic means having the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.
What is naturalistic in Urdu?
Naturalistic in Urdu is فطریت پسندانہ, طبیعی. See Naturalistic meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is naturalistic?
Naturalistic is an adjective.

Words near naturalistic in the dictionary

  1. naturalism
  2. naturalisms
  3. naturalist
  4. naturalista
  5. naturalistas
  6. naturalistic
  7. naturalistic fallacies
  8. naturalistic fallacy
  9. naturalistically
  10. naturalists
  11. naturalities

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Adapted from Wiktionary: naturalistic (page history and authors); naturalistic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); naturalistic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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