1.
If you are ~ about a situation, you recognize and accept its true nature and try to deal with it in a practical way.
Police have to be ~ about violent crime...
It’s only ~ to acknowledge that something, some time, will go wrong.
ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft ADJ about n, it v-link ADJ to-inf
~ally
As an adult, you can assess the situation ~ally.
ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj
2.
Something such as a goal or target that is ~ is one which you can sensibly expect to achieve.
Establish deadlines that are more ~.
= sensible
ADJ
3.
You say that a painting, story, or film is ~ when the people and things in it are like people and things in real life.
...extraordinarily ~ paintings of Indians...
ADJ
~ally
The film starts off ~ally and then develops into a ridiculous fantasy.
ADV: usu ADV with v