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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Realistic \Re'al*is"tic\ (-[i^]s"t[i^]k), adjective Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
realistic
adjective
1: aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans" [ant: {unrealistic}]
2: representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" [syn: {naturalistic}]
3: of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of realism; "a realistic system of thought"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
200 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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