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real-worlders

real-worlders is the plural of real-worlder.

Meaning of real-worlder

Noun

real-worlder (plural real-worlders)

  1. Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.
    • Another trouble within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want to depend on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick.1965, The Politics of Military Policy: Seminars on the Politics of Policy-making, page 12
    Synonyms:
    realist

Questions about real-worlders

What is real-worlders the plural of?
Real-worlders is the plural of real-worlder.

Words near real-worlders in the dictionary

  1. real-timely
  2. real-valued
  3. real-world
  4. real-world time
  5. real-worlder
  6. real-worlders
  7. realarm
  8. realarmed
  9. realarming
  10. realarms
  11. realatable

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