Definitions
aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are
Word origin
From realist + -ic.
Used in a sentence
“A realistic appraisal of the situation.”
“Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.”
“A realistic novel about the Victorian poor.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“practical”9 letters
02“Plausible”9 letters
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