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US
/ˈɹiəɫɪst/
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[ UK /ɹˈiəlɪst/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈiəlɪst/ ]
NOUN
- a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly
- a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style
- a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
How To Use realist In A Sentence
- The six-inch white plastic stick uses a battery-powered atomiser to create realistic puffs of "smoke," while the tip glows red with each suck. The Cigarette That’s Legal Indoors | Impact Lab
- Penguin used to do these great science fiction paperback editions, and they had one series with really evocative paintings — glossy, garish, almost hyperrealist — on the covers. Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2
- Stevenson, Anne Noted for her realistic, fast-paced stories, believable characters, and excellent use of dialogue.
- More realistic estimates are based on the assumption that fertility will gradually decline to around replacement level.
- Still Life with Action Figure," a particularly realist exercise, actually occurs in suburbia, where an artist son visits his artist father, who has resumed painting despite suffering from parkinsonism. Ccfinlay: You Make My Heart Sing
- The only realistic way is to raise Britain's laggard productivity performance.
- At about the time Hanson began making his realistic figures in the 1960s, other artists were also making life-sized figures molded from actual people.
- All items of the total landscaping package had to be measured in order to submit realistic costs.
- In its favour, there is some genuine tension in the car chase sequences, and the marauding gangs of children seem not only authentic but realistically threatening.
- His range of effects is unusually eloquent; there is something of the monoprint to them, as well as elements of the Surrealist techniques of decalcomania and frottage.