Synonyms and related words :
arid, authentic, barren, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, common, commonplace, dinkum, down-to-earth, dry, dull, earthbound, earthy, flat, following the letter, genuine, good, hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, honest, honest-to-God, humdrum, inartificial, infecund, infertile, insipid, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, matter-of-fact, mundane, natural, naturalistic, ordinary, original, pedestrian, plain, poetryless, positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, prosaic, prosing, prosy, pure, rational, real, realist, realistic, reasonable, rightful, sane, scientific, scientistic, secular, sensible, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sober, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking, staid, sterling, stolid, straight-thinking, stuffy, sure-enough, tiresome, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unembellished, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unideal, unidealistic, unimaginative, unimagined, unimitated, unimpassioned, uninspired, uninvented, uninventive, unoriginal, unpoetic, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromanticized, unsentimental, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, vapid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, word-for-word, worldly