Crossword clues for realist
realist
- She has no illusions about top celebs
- Person with sensible expectations
- Unsentimental type about a set of items
- Unidealistic one
- One accepting the world as it is
- Down-to-earth person
- Type of artist or writer
- Someone who's pragmatic
- Romantic's counterpart
- Pragmatic sort
- Practical thinker
- One who can face facts
- One who calls a spade a spade
- One seeing it like it is
- Not a dreamer
- Is alert (anag)
- Hopeless romantic's counterpart
- Grounded one
- Forceful writer
- Flaubert or Zola
- Down-to-earth type
- No dreamer
- One who sees it like it is
- Dreamer's opposite
- Pragmatic person
- Practical sort ... or anagram #1 of the only seven letters used to make this puzzle
- The facts guide his acts
- Practical person
- Twain or Whitman
- Fact facer
- He won't kid himself
- Objective one
- Down-to-earth one
- Pragmatic one
- Idealist's opposite
- Closed door to begin with - need to get dressed
- One without illusions
- One with no illusions is alert to change
- One with no illusions about a catalogue
- One who's no illusions about a catalogue
- She’s pragmatic about a catalogue
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Realist \Re"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]aliste.]
(Philos.) One who believes in realism; esp., one who maintains that generals, or the terms used to denote the genera and species of things, represent real existences, and are not mere names, as maintained by the nominalists.
(Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See Realism, 2.
a person who avoids unrealistic or impractical beliefs or efforts. Contrasted to idealist or visionary.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context philosophy English) An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them. 2 One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be. 3 (context arts literature English) An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.
WordNet
n. a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
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
Usage examples of "realist".
No realist can love romantic Art so much as he loves his own, but when that Art fulfils the laws of its peculiar being, if he would be no blind partisan, he must admit it.
In the wake of the groundbreaking prose fiction written by members of the Natural school, literary realists in mid-nineteenth-century Russia were able to use food imagery and fictional meals in their works in less Rabelaisian and more mimetically purposeful ways: that is, as metonyms or synecdoches through which to describe contemporary social reality.
With the help of Pastour, the realist, Fehrle would have no difficulty at all.
The reason he was such a great philologist was because he was so great a realist, a man who was intensely interested in the Greek people, their history and life.
Then, because he was a realist, he also built a shooting range when he practiced daily with his burner, his Screecher, and his other weapons.
We saw the realist run into the naturalist, the naturalist into the animalist, the psychologist into the sexualist, and the sudden reaction to romance, in the form of what is called the historic novel, the receipt for which can be prescribed by any competent pharmacist.
Even in daytime it is a lonely and desolate spot, but in the pre-dawn moonlight it becomes charged with a sinister atmosphere of its own that can be felt by even the most cynical and unsuperstitious realist.
The fear they had been sensing in Ben all morning had become a strange disconnectedness, and Mara - always more of a realist than an optimist - assumed the worst.
Scotist, Thomist, Realist, Nominalist, Papist, Calvinist, Molinist, Jansenist, are only pseudonyms.
Even the nuclear realists, busy as their minds must be with calculations of acceptable levels of megadeath, would not want to overlook anything.
Soon Hesse rejected the neoromanticism of his youth and turned to a less fanciful type of narrative after the fashion of the great nineteenth-century realists.
It had stood, or parts of it had stood, from premedieval England to the era of microchips and space rockets, through sorcery and superstition into the age of the realist.
Thus even when the very ideas of representation and information processing change considerably, as they do in the study of connectionist networks, self-organization, and emergent properties, some form of the realist assumption remains.
Everyone thought of him as a realist: a man of method, a hardheaded person without any illusions about himself or anything else.
Realist and pragmatist though she was, she nevertheless nurtured a blind bit of self-delusion wherein she would turn Booboo around.