Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Realistically \Re`al*is"tic*al*ly\, adv. In a realistic manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a realistic manner.
WordNet
adv. in a realistic manner; "let's look at the situation realistically" [ant: unrealistically]
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.