REALISTIC


Meaning of REALISTIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ri:əlɪstɪk ]

1.

If you are realistic about a situation, you recognize and accept its true nature and try to deal with it in a practical way.

Police have to be realistic about violent crime...

It’s only realistic to acknowledge that something, some time, will go wrong.

ADJ : usu v-link ADJ , oft ADJ about n , it v-link ADJ to-inf

• re‧al‧is‧ti‧cal‧ly

As an adult, you can assess the situation realistically.

ADV : usu ADV with v , also ADV adj

2.

Something such as a goal or target that is realistic is one which you can sensibly expect to achieve.

Establish deadlines that are more realistic.

= sensible

ADJ

3.

You say that a painting, story, or film is realistic when the people and things in it are like people and things in real life.

...extraordinarily realistic paintings of Indians...

ADJ

• re‧al‧is‧ti‧cal‧ly

The film starts off realistically and then develops into a ridiculous fantasy.

ADV : usu ADV with v

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