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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
realistically
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
expect
▪ As for tomorrow's race, Jeremy can't realistically expect to finish in the first ten first time out.
▪ In short, not the kind of team you realistically expect to blast into the Swell Sixteen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Realistically, there was not much we could do to help.
▪ Proulx's novel realistically portrays life in early 20th century America.
▪ You can realistically expect to pay between $25 and $50 a ticket.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Audio visual and special effects will allow visitors to realistically experience life at sea.
▪ Hopefully, it seeps down to your bones and then you can portray somebody like this accurately and as realistically as possible.
▪ May and June are, realistically, the most opportune time for such projects.
▪ Neither economic stabilisation, nor political calm, can realistically be achieved before the elections happen.
▪ Once this is done, the writer should observe how realistically each study phase can be completed.
▪ That is, what can be realistically added is relatively small, in the range of ten or fifteen percent.
▪ The time schedule or calendar is another indication of how carefully and realistically the proposal has been developed.
▪ This becomes worse when hierarchies are made realistically complex to reflect real-world data relationships.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Realistically

Realistically \Re`al*is"tic*al*ly\, adv. In a realistic manner.

Wiktionary
realistically

adv. In a realistic manner.

WordNet
realistically
  1. adv. in a realistic manner; "let's look at the situation realistically" [ant: unrealistically]

  2. in a realistic manner; "the figure was realistically painted"

Usage examples of "realistically".

Joyce, the Irish novelist, who worked miserably as a bank clerk in Rome in the 1900s, seems to have read Belli, whose vast sonnet-sequence, presenting realistically the demotic life of a great capital city, may be regarded as a kind of proto-Ulysses.

Just behind all these Cammerling saw ranks of archers advancing with fire-headed missiles on their bows, and the whole mass was being urged on by horn-blowers, cymbalists and bull-roarers and standard-bearers staggering under huge pennants realistically resembling entire flayed human hides.

At his age he could not realistically seek service and deathin the field.

Realistically or in fantastic allegories, with a technical mastery that only increased as he grew older, Goya recorded it all -- not only the agonies endured by his people at the hands of the invaders, but also the follies and crimes committed by these same people in their dealings with one another.

Patuxent River experience, the battle operations in Korea and the general activities of the astronauts are realistically presented.

Ancient Echoes is pure fantasy, Holdstock gives his scenario of time-traveling cities and survivals of antiquity a clearly sci-ence-fictional spin: Jack ventures into the otherworld through a peculiar experimental device, a kind of brain scanner and virtual reality projector put together to allow a subject to delve quite realistically into the deep unconscious landscapes of his or her own mind.

Gods and many other Gods and heroes riding on open litters of gold and purple, realistically painted, clad in exquisite clothes.

Both of these figures were on the heroic scale, but more realistically sized beings were taking flight, some upon winged steeds, other by spreading wings that recalled those of angels.

We could, of course, learn to give ourselves a more realistically helpful message, an allower, such as "It's OK to be yourself and less than perfect.

She paced through the carefully camouflaged upper part of the big log-cabin house, past magazines that were never read but were still ruffled realistically at set intervals, past furniture carefully worn at a regular pace and replaced occasionally.

Realistically, our focus is not yours, and therefore we need to dispense with you.

Lots and lots of lonely nights spent staring at the empty pillow next to hers in the queen-sized bed, fantasizing about falling in love, fantasizing about risqué sexual situations she’d realistically never find herself in.

A nice thought on her part, Piemur re flected, realistically aware that Menolly might not be able to distribute Beauty's eggs as she wished.

Realistically, a good foster home would have been far preferable to the way shed been living, but it was never easy for kids to lose their families, no matter how rotten, and be deposited with strangers.

Tubelin washed down his legs, while Zainal did his own arms: both used some degree of care for the gouges and slices that were visible were also genuine, if realistically enlarged.