| 1. | interested in, concerned with, or based on what is real or practical: a realistic estimate of costs; a realistic planner. |
| 2. | pertaining to, characterized by, or given to the representation in literature or art of things as they really are: a realistic novel. |
| 3. | resembling or simulating real life: a duck hunter skilled at making realistic decoys. |
| 4. | Philosophy. of or pertaining to realists or realism. |