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realist
[ ree-uh-list ]
noun
- a person who tends to view or represent things as they really are.
- an artist or a writer whose work is characterized by realism.
- Philosophy. an adherent of realism.
adjective
- of or relating to realism or to a person who embodies its principles or practices:
the realist approach to social ills;
realist paintings.
ˈrealist
/ ˈrɪəlɪst /
noun
- a person who is aware of and accepts the physical universe, events, etc, as they are; pragmatist
- an artist or writer who seeks to represent the familiar or typical in real life rather than an idealized, formalized, or romantic interpretation
- philosophy a person who accepts realism
- modifier of, relating to, or characteristic of realism or realists in the arts, philosophy, etc
a realist school
Other Words From
- anti·real·ist noun adjective
- hyper·real·ist noun
- non·real·ist noun
- pro·real·ist adjective noun
- ultra·real·ist noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
A realist would worry about what comes next from the world’s most powerful countries.
I am, however, a realist and I don’t get too excited because disappointments can hurt more.
Hutchison overlaps multiple views, usually of the same person, a cubist strategy tempered by a realist style and neoclassical oil-painting technique.
Whether you’re a hardcore survivalist or simply a realist, a high quality emergency radio can decrease risk in a challenging situation and provide added peace of mind in safer times.
In the show’s largest picture, he turns his attention to another test of the realist painter — draped fabric — with a window scene that emphasizes lush pink and gold curtains.
And I think part of it was in response to being such an extreme realist writer.
Burt told me that he considers Paul a traditional, Republican realist.
He was an “idealist and a realist at the same time,” said his close friend, the British Diplomat Frank Roberts.
This indictment of American meddling was also echoed by uber-realist Stephen Walt, a professor at Harvard.
Jacob Heilbrunn asked in The National Interest, the premier realist journal.
While he runs Zola close as a realist, his thoughts and language are as pure as those of Miss Yonge herself.'
But whereas as a national poet he was a flattering idealist, he was as a personal poet an uncompromising realist.
A realist through and through, he did not shrink from representing the horrible, which antique art preferred to avoid.
When you reach the inner circle of government you find always a very practical realism, and Brinsmade is in all things a realist.
Robertson approved of these innovations, but he was never more than half a realist, and this from several causes.
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