[
UK
/ʌnɹiəlˈɪstɪk/
]
[ US /ənˌɹiˈɫɪstɪk/ ]
[ US /ənˌɹiˈɫɪstɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not realistic
unrealistic expectations
prices at unrealistic high levels
How To Use unrealistic In A Sentence
- They can sometimes recognize that their obsessions and compulsions are unrealistic.
- Our analysis shows that proposed cost for the new highway is unrealistic.
- Too many clubs seem to be spending ridiculous amounts based on projected incomes which are not just unrealistic but beyond the realms of fantasy.
- It would be unrealistic to expect too much from the mission, based on a ten-day visit.
- The term rapidly acquired a more general usage and is sometimes used to describe any non-specific unrealistic genre scene by English 18th-century artists.
- It is unrealistic to expect the young and naive to feel more responsibility for public expenditure than government does. Times, Sunday Times
- I think it would be unrealistic if I quickly tried to make them friends within the time restraints of this story.
- It may be a rather shallow and increasingly unrealistic kind of pash, but it's still there, still cooking away against all sense of reasonable expectation. Joe Cole has the talent and stage for a late-career flourish at Liverpool
- The plan originally proposed was ruled completely unrealistic.
- Many new left radicals of the 1960s came to see their hopes for radical social change in the near future were unrealistic. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies