Meaning of NATURALISTIC
| Pronunciation: | | `natshuru'listik
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| | Definition: | | [adj] representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" |
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| | Synonyms: | | realistic, representational |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Nat`u*ral*is"tic\, a.
1. Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism.
2. Closely resembling nature; realistic. ``Naturalistic bit
of pantomime.'' --W. D. Howells.
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| | Related Terms: | | animist, animistic, atomistic, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, characteristic, commonsense, cosmotheistic, Cyrenaic, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, Eleatic, empirical, Epicurean, eudaemonistic, exemplary, existential, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, general, genuine, good, graphic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, honest, honest-to-God, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, inartificial, instrumentalist, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, Marxian, Marxist, materialist, materialistic, mechanist, mechanistic, Megarian, metaphysical, monistic, natural, naturalist, naturistic, nominalist, normal, orderly, original, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, pure, quintessential, rationalistic, real, realist, realistic, regular, representative, rightful, sample, scholastic, sensationalistic, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling, Stoic, sure-enough, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, true to form, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unexceptional, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, usual, utilitarian, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vitalistic, vivid, voluntarist, voluntaristic, well-drawn, word-for-word |
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