realistic
adjective
interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical.
nonrealistic
-
a word derived from
realistic.
Example Sentences
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Has it changed the way performers tackle even nonrealistic material?
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
The film’s Hagmaier may finally have gotten inside Bundy’s head, but — even in the forthrightly nonrealistic context of the sequence — the mental-linkage conceit is absurd.
From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2021
Short nonrealistic, dancelike sequences may hint at the characters’ yearnings, but the import is murky.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2018
Since then, experiments have confirmed quantum theory’s predictions, forcing physicists to accept that the fabric of reality is nonlocal, nonrealistic or both!
From Scientific American ● Dec. 5, 2011
Just as the Motion Picture Academy tends to honor showy performances, it also lauds movies whose editing is either dramatically nonrealistic or fast fast fast.
From Time Magazine Archive
