realistic
/ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/
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realistic adjective: expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.
Adjective
realistic (comparative more realistic, superlative most realistic)
- Expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.
- A realistic appraisal of the situation.
- Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport
- Synonyms:
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- Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
- A realistic novel about the Victorian poor.
- Possible or practical to achieve; based on what is real or practical.
- a realistic goal
realistic meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
realistic in Hindi
- expressed or represented as being accurate
- वास्तविक vāstavik
- relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were
- व्यवहारिक vyavhārik, वास्तविक vāstavik
realistic in Tamil
- யதார்த்தம், தத்ரூபம், யதார்த்தமான, தத்ரூபமான
realistic in Urdu
- حقیقت پسندانہ
realistic in Bengali
- বাস্তবানুগ, বাস্তববাদী, বস্তুতান্ত্রিক
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- realistic in Malayalam
- യഥാതഥമായ, പ്രായോഗികമായ, യുക്തിസഹമായ, പ്രയോഗസാമർത്ഥ്യമുള്ള
- realistic in Kannada
- ವಾಸ್ತವಿಕ, ಉಚಿತ, ಸಂಗತವಾದ, ವಿವೇಕಯುಕ್ತವಾದ
- realistic in Odia
- ବାସ୍ତବସମ୍ମତ
- realistic in Tagalog
- makatotohanan
- realistic in Thai
- สมจริง
Examples of realistic in a sentence
- The two actors had a very realistic onscreen romance, but in reality they couldn't stand each other.
- The special effects were terrifyingly realistic the first time I saw them.
- He was so starry-eyed when he started, but reality ground him down, and he became both more realistic and more practical.
Synonyms of realistic
Antonyms
Forms of realistic
| comparative | more realistic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most realistic |
Origin of realistic
From realist + -ic.
Words formed from realistic
Words that rhyme with realistic
- artistic
- autistic
- characteristic
- atavistic
- ballistic
- heuristic
- linguistic
- pessimistic
- cystic
- futuristic
- histic
- holistic
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- hypocoristic
- mystic
- optimistic
- activistic
- allistic
- altruistic
- cannibalistic
- criminalistic
- economistic
- epiphenomenalistic
- fistic
- heteroantagonistic
- hubristic
- hybristic
- infinitistic
- isoantagonistic
- jingoistic
- journalistic
- librettistic
- malistic
- mistic
- navalistic
- paralinguistic
- pistic
- retrofuturistic
- spiritistic
- supercalifragilistic
- surrealistic
- unartistic
Questions about realistic
- What does realistic mean?
- Realistic means expressed or represented as being accurate, practicable, or not idealistic.
- What is realistic in Hindi?
- Realistic in Hindi is वास्तविक (vāstavik), व्यवहारिक (vyavhārik). See Realistic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is realistic?
- Realistic is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce realistic?
- Realistic is pronounced /ˌɹɪəˈlɪs.tɪk/.
Words near realistic in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: realistic (page history and authors); realistic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); realistic (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); realistic (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); realistic (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); realistic (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); realistic (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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