realist
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
realist
n 1: a philosopher who believes that universals are real and
exist independently of anyone thinking of them
2: a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals
with it accordingly
3: a painter who represents the world realistically and not in
an idealized or romantic style
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Realist \Re"al*ist\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]aliste.]
1. (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.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Art. & Lit.) An artist or writer who aims at realism in
his work. See {Realism}, 2.
[1913 Webster]
3. a person who avoids unrealistic or impractical beliefs or
efforts. Contrasted to {idealist} or {visionary}.
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "realist":
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic,
animist, animistic, atomistic, commonsense,
commonsense philosopher, cosmotheistic, dialectical materialist,
down-to-earth, earthy, eclectic, empirical,
epistemological realist, eudaemonistic, existential, hardheaded,
hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous,
hylotheistic, idealistic, instrumentalist, materialist,
materialistic, matter-of-fact, mechanist, mechanistic,
metaphysical, monistic, natural realist, naturalist, naturalistic,
nominalist, panlogistical, pantheistic, physicist, positivist,
positivistic, practical, practical person, practical-minded,
pragmatic, pragmatist, rational, rationalistic, realistic,
reasonable, sane, scholastic, scientific, scientistic, secular,
sensationalistic, sensible, sober-minded, sound, sound-thinking,
straight-thinking, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist,
transcendentalistic, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic,
unsentimental, utilitarian, vitalistic, voluntarist, voluntaristic,
worldly
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