realist
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- of or relating to realism or to a person who embodies its principles or practices: the realist approach to social ills; realist paintings.
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Origin of realist
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Examples from the Web for realist
Contemporary Examples
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.
“I view myself as a realist, and the reality is that what Iran is doing is very simple,” he said.
Cozzens, largely forgotten these days, was a 20th-century realist writer in the mode of Theodore Dreiser.
Ben Gurion once said, “In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”
Historical Examples
Captain Feldman was a realist but he was also a deeply moral man.
ZenJerome Bixby
"They don't have much choice," Captain Feldman said, always the realist.
ZenJerome Bixby
In the first place, it does not mean that Greek art is what we call ‘naturalist’ or ‘realist’.
The Legacy of GreeceVarious
"I believe you are a realist, Henry," said his wife playfully.
Steve and the Steam EngineSara Ware Bassett
It was dear to the Realist, and it is dear to the Symbolist.
The ChildrenAlice Meynell
realist
- 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, etca realist school
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Word Origin and History for realist
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