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