realistic
part of speech
adjective (realistic, more realistic, most realistic)
meaning for a pupil
1) Sensible about what can really happen or be done: "a realistic plan". tree →
2) Looking or seeming very like the real thing: "a realistic painting of a horse." tree →
3) Realistic can also describe a view that takes things as they actually are, without imagining or magic. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life a realistic goal is one you can actually reach. In art lessons a realistic drawing looks like real life. In maths, a "realistic answer" makes sense: a person cannot be 5 metres tall. In stories, realistic fiction tells about things that could happen. Phrases: be realistic, realistic goal, realistic fiction, look realistic.
examples
- Be realistic: we cannot paint the whole house today. tree →
- The toy dinosaur looks very realistic. tree →
- Set yourself a realistic goal for reading each week. tree →
- Check whether your answer is realistic. tree →
- Realistic fiction is about things that could really happen. tree →
- Her drawing of the cat is so realistic. tree →
- It is not realistic to walk to London from here. tree →
- Even such a minute touch as the terraces on the hill have their bearing, I believe, on Mr. MacRitchie's “realistic” views of Faerie. tree →
note
Opposite: "unrealistic". The noun is "realism"; the adverb is "realistically". In maths and science, check your answer is realistic: if a pencil comes out 3 kilometres long, you made a mistake. A realistic picture can still be fake, so do not believe every realistic photo online.
In the corpora
- AI can make realistic fake photos of real people, and checking trusted news before forwarding is the best defence.
- A game rated 18 can contain realistic violence, crime, strong swearing and adult scenes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «realistic» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.