realisticadj.

Brit.

/ˌrɪəˈlɪstɪk/, U.S.

/ˌriəˈlɪstɪk/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: realist n., -ic suffix.

Etymology: < realist n. + -ic suffix. Compare French réaliste (see realist n. and adj.), German realistisch (2nd half of the 19th cent.). Compare realism n., realist adj.

a. Characterized by faithfulness of representation, esp. in reference to art, film, and literature; representing things in a way that is accurate and true to life.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period

classical1546

pastoral1566

classic1597

Medicean1652

romantic1812

tedesco1814

realistic1829

realista1832

pseudo-classic1833

classicist1838

pseudo-classical1838

renaissant1839

modernist1848

post-classic1850

post-classical1851

pseudo-Gothic1853

classicizing1865

classicistic1866

serio-grotesque1873

geometric1877

neoclassical1877

modernistic1878

neoclassic1878

pseudo-archaic1878

William Morris1883

protocorinthian1884

veristic1884

William and Mary1886

Yuan1888

romanticistic1889

veritistic1894

auto-destructive1895

pre-Romantic1895

Trajanic1906

neo-realistic1909

New Romantic1909

neo-realist1912

futuristic1915

postmodern1916

Dada1918

Dadaist1918

surrealist1918

proto-Romantic1920

expressionistic1921

modernista1924

super-realist1925

superrealistic1925

postmodernist1926

proto-Baroque1926

post-symbolist1927

pre-modernist1927

surrealistic1930

Renaissancist1932

Colonial Revival1934

neo-baroque1935

socialist-realist1935

social realist1949

social realistic1949

kitchen sink1954

William IV1955

formalistic1957

Zhdanovite1957

neo-Dadaist1960

neo-modernist1960

William Morrisy1960

neo-Dada1962

Zhdanovist1966

conceptual1969

conceptualist1973

po-mo1987

pathetic1990

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adjective] > in natural state > faithful to original

justc1425

perfect1523

undistorting1823

realistic1829

realista1832

photographic1855

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory

classic1743

classical1784

Alexandrian1803

romantic1812

realistic1829

realista1832

romanticist1831

symbolistic1864

symbolistical1864

neo-romantic1875

naturalistic1876

Alexandrine1877

neoclassical1877

veristic1884

impressionistic1886

impressionary1889

romanticistic1889

sensitivist1891

veritistic1894

Félibrian1908

symbolic1910

vorticist1914

Dada1918

Dadaist1918

surrealist1918

postmodernist1926

surrealistic1930

ultraist1931

socialist-realist1935

lettrist1947

social realist1949

social realistic1949

formalist1955

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [adjective] > realistic

true1671

realistic1829

slice of life1895

down to earth1922

dirty realist1984

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective]

positive1594

literal1633

unprojecting1647

pounds, shillings, and pence?1650

matter of fact1712

unvisionary1794

unimaginative1814

literalist1838

literal-mindeda1849

visionless1856

realistic1862

terre-à-terre1888

pragmatical1896

illusionless1897

cookie cutter1922

down to earth1922

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > qualities of

natural1581

well-observed1620

exact1645

well-treated1663

nature-painting1748

idealized1810

life-size1813

life-sized1834

lifelike1836

likely1840

realistic1943

1829 H. C. Robinson Diary 13 Aug. (1967) 102 [Goethe] repeated the remark which is one of his fixed ideas that it is by..facts that even a poetical view of nature is to be..authenticated... It is this which had made Goethe a realistic poet, as opposed to the idealism of such poetry as Wordsworth's.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 234 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject, is Swift.

1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ x. 436 Carlyle's..speculative genius (for his genius is speculative, however realistic it may appear in certain aspects).

1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. ii. 72 His scenery is as realistic as a photograph.

1887 Spectator 26 Mar. 421/2 A woman in a realistic novel murders her child.

1943 Ulster: Brit. Bridgehead (H.M.S.O.) 6 (caption) This realistic picture shows British troops in training in Northern Ireland.

1971 Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 67/3 High fidelity stereo at its most successful is wide-ranging and realistic, analytical and rich in detail.

2000 L. T. Johnson in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 147/1 Representations of the cross varied considerably, from crossed lines scratched on catacomb walls through realistic depictions of the tortured body to ornate and bejewelled celebrations of Christus Victor.

†b. That conceives or imagines (a thing) as real. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 171 That realistic mode of conception in which alone a true atoning doctrine can rest in peace.

2. Philosophy. Of or relating to realists (realist n. 1); of the nature of realism (realism n. 1, 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [adjective] > of realism

real1603

realistic1843

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. viii. 197 The philosophers who overthrew Realism..retained long afterwards, in their own philosophy, numerous propositions which could only have a rational meaning as part of a Realistic system.

1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. I. i. v. 122 The realistic tendency—the disposition to mistake words for things—is a vice inherent in all ordinary thinking.

1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 362 The Realistic view inclines to treat general principles of this kind..as designations of mere matters of fact, which might have occurred differently [etc.].

1929 Jrnl. Philos. 26 233 In the newer realism as well as in the older materialism we are familiar with the idea of the non-creativity of mind in a realistic universe.

1961 A. Edel Sci. & Struct. Ethics ii. xiv. 32 The language of realistic Platonesque ideal entities describing the object.

2005 Bull. Symbolic Logic 11 79 Some philosophers..have interpreted the structures..that mathematicians study in a realistic spirit, treating them as a range of extraordinary abstract objects.

3. Concerned with, or characterized by, a practical view of life; having or showing a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved or expected.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [adjective] > characterized by sense

sensiblec1598

philosophical1638

salted1647

philosophic1700

common sense1797

no-nonsense1853

realistic1869

grounded1976

1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. iii. 87 Could not be reconciled to life by any plain view of things, by any realistic calculations.

1891 J. N. Keynes Scope & Method Polit. Econ. 124 Examples of economic problems requiring for their complete solution a realistic treatment.

1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 173/1 Other, more realistic worthies called attention to the lamentable fact that similar carnalities went on in practically every other town in the land.

1936 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Feb. 1/5 Mr. Eden, although doubting his wisdom, wished Chamberlain success in his ‘realistic’ search for lasting peace.

1956 Washington Post 22 July e7/5 Laqueur asks, ‘Can the West Live with Nasserism?’, and argues that failure..prevents the shaping of a realistic policy for the Middle East.

1963 Observer 3 Nov. 33/3 ‘Realistic’ can vary from its theatre meaning of ‘with damp washing’ to its place at the top of the conjugation ‘I am realistic, you have compromised, he has sold out’.

1974 J. D. MacDonald Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975) xviii. 271 You are very realistic and diligent and all that. Maybe I have a grasshopper philosophy.

2005 R. Tope Cotswold Killing x. 130 Her father had taught her to be confident and realistic. ‘Very few people in the world are actively out to get you,’ he'd said once.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	realistic
释义	realisticadj. Brit. /ˌrɪəˈlɪstɪk/, U.S. /ˌriəˈlɪstɪk/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: realist n., -ic suffix. Etymology: < realist n. + -ic suffix. Compare French réaliste (see realist n. and adj.), German realistisch (2nd half of the 19th cent.). Compare realism n., realist adj. 1. a. Characterized by faithfulness of representation, esp. in reference to art, film, and literature; representing things in a way that is accurate and true to life. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period classical1546 pastoral1566 classic1597 Medicean1652 romantic1812 tedesco1814 realistic1829 realista1832 pseudo-classic1833 classicist1838 pseudo-classical1838 renaissant1839 modernist1848 post-classic1850 post-classical1851 pseudo-Gothic1853 classicizing1865 classicistic1866 serio-grotesque1873 geometric1877 neoclassical1877 modernistic1878 neoclassic1878 pseudo-archaic1878 William Morris1883 protocorinthian1884 veristic1884 William and Mary1886 Yuan1888 romanticistic1889 veritistic1894 auto-destructive1895 pre-Romantic1895 Trajanic1906 neo-realistic1909 New Romantic1909 neo-realist1912 futuristic1915 postmodern1916 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 proto-Romantic1920 expressionistic1921 modernista1924 super-realist1925 superrealistic1925 postmodernist1926 proto-Baroque1926 post-symbolist1927 pre-modernist1927 surrealistic1930 Renaissancist1932 Colonial Revival1934 neo-baroque1935 socialist-realist1935 social realist1949 social realistic1949 kitchen sink1954 William IV1955 formalistic1957 Zhdanovite1957 neo-Dadaist1960 neo-modernist1960 William Morrisy1960 neo-Dada1962 Zhdanovist1966 conceptual1969 conceptualist1973 po-mo1987 pathetic1990 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > [adjective] > in natural state > faithful to original justc1425 perfect1523 undistorting1823 realistic1829 realista1832 photographic1855 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary world > [adjective] > literary movement, school, or theory classic1743 classical1784 Alexandrian1803 romantic1812 realistic1829 realista1832 romanticist1831 symbolistic1864 symbolistical1864 neo-romantic1875 naturalistic1876 Alexandrine1877 neoclassical1877 veristic1884 impressionistic1886 impressionary1889 romanticistic1889 sensitivist1891 veritistic1894 Félibrian1908 symbolic1910 vorticist1914 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 postmodernist1926 surrealistic1930 ultraist1931 socialist-realist1935 lettrist1947 social realist1949 social realistic1949 formalist1955 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [adjective] > realistic true1671 realistic1829 slice of life1895 down to earth1922 dirty realist1984 the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > lack of imagination > [adjective] positive1594 literal1633 unprojecting1647 pounds, shillings, and pence?1650 matter of fact1712 unvisionary1794 unimaginative1814 literalist1838 literal-mindeda1849 visionless1856 realistic1862 terre-à-terre1888 pragmatical1896 illusionless1897 cookie cutter1922 down to earth1922 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [adjective] > qualities of natural1581 well-observed1620 exact1645 well-treated1663 nature-painting1748 idealized1810 life-size1813 life-sized1834 lifelike1836 likely1840 realistic1943 1829 H. C. Robinson Diary 13 Aug. (1967) 102 [Goethe] repeated the remark which is one of his fixed ideas that it is by..facts that even a poetical view of nature is to be..authenticated... It is this which had made Goethe a realistic poet, as opposed to the idealism of such poetry as Wordsworth's. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 234 How realistic or materialistic in treatment of his subject, is Swift. 1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ x. 436 Carlyle's..speculative genius (for his genius is speculative, however realistic it may appear in certain aspects). 1879 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 3rd Ser. ii. 72 His scenery is as realistic as a photograph. 1887 Spectator 26 Mar. 421/2 A woman in a realistic novel murders her child. 1943 Ulster: Brit. Bridgehead (H.M.S.O.) 6 (caption) This realistic picture shows British troops in training in Northern Ireland. 1971 Hi-Fi Sound Feb. 67/3 High fidelity stereo at its most successful is wide-ranging and realistic, analytical and rich in detail. 2000 L. T. Johnson in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 147/1 Representations of the cross varied considerably, from crossed lines scratched on catacomb walls through realistic depictions of the tortured body to ornate and bejewelled celebrations of Christus Victor. †b. That conceives or imagines (a thing) as real. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 171 That realistic mode of conception in which alone a true atoning doctrine can rest in peace. 2. Philosophy. Of or relating to realists (realist n. 1); of the nature of realism (realism n. 1, 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > materialism > [adjective] > of realism real1603 realistic1843 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. viii. 197 The philosophers who overthrew Realism..retained long afterwards, in their own philosophy, numerous propositions which could only have a rational meaning as part of a Realistic system. 1874 J. Fiske Outl. Cosmic Philos. I. i. v. 122 The realistic tendency—the disposition to mistake words for things—is a vice inherent in all ordinary thinking. 1884 B. Bosanquet et al. tr. H. Lotze Metaphysic 362 The Realistic view inclines to treat general principles of this kind..as designations of mere matters of fact, which might have occurred differently [etc.]. 1929 Jrnl. Philos. 26 233 In the newer realism as well as in the older materialism we are familiar with the idea of the non-creativity of mind in a realistic universe. 1961 A. Edel Sci. & Struct. Ethics ii. xiv. 32 The language of realistic Platonesque ideal entities describing the object. 2005 Bull. Symbolic Logic 11 79 Some philosophers..have interpreted the structures..that mathematicians study in a realistic spirit, treating them as a range of extraordinary abstract objects. 3. Concerned with, or characterized by, a practical view of life; having or showing a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved or expected. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [adjective] > characterized by sense sensiblec1598 philosophical1638 salted1647 philosophic1700 common sense1797 no-nonsense1853 realistic1869 grounded1976 1869 J. R. Seeley Lect. & Ess. iii. 87 Could not be reconciled to life by any plain view of things, by any realistic calculations. 1891 J. N. Keynes Scope & Method Polit. Econ. 124 Examples of economic problems requiring for their complete solution a realistic treatment. 1928 Amer. Mercury Oct. 173/1 Other, more realistic worthies called attention to the lamentable fact that similar carnalities went on in practically every other town in the land. 1936 Sun (Baltimore) 26 Feb. 1/5 Mr. Eden, although doubting his wisdom, wished Chamberlain success in his ‘realistic’ search for lasting peace. 1956 Washington Post 22 July e7/5 Laqueur asks, ‘Can the West Live with Nasserism?’, and argues that failure..prevents the shaping of a realistic policy for the Middle East. 1963 Observer 3 Nov. 33/3 ‘Realistic’ can vary from its theatre meaning of ‘with damp washing’ to its place at the top of the conjugation ‘I am realistic, you have compromised, he has sold out’. 1974 J. D. MacDonald Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975) xviii. 271 You are very realistic and diligent and all that. Maybe I have a grasshopper philosophy. 2005 R. Tope Cotswold Killing x. 130 Her father had taught her to be confident and realistic. ‘Very few people in the world are actively out to get you,’ he'd said once. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1829
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