down-to-earth

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

down-to-earth
    adj 1: sensible and practical; "has a straightforward down-to-
           earth approach to a problem"; "her earthy common sense"
           [syn: {down-to-earth}, {earthy}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

down-to-earth \down-to-earth\ adj.
   facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and
   observation rather than theory. Opposite of {idealistic},
   {unrealistic}, {impractical}, and {pie-in-the-sky}.

   Syn: hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic.
        [WordNet 1.5] Downtrod

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

31 Moby Thesaurus words for "down-to-earth":
      earthy, hard, hard-boiled, hardheaded, matter, matter-of-fact,
      positivistic, practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, pragmatical,
      rational, realist, realistic, reasonable, sane, scientific,
      scientistic, secular, sensible, sober, sober-minded, sound,
      sound-thinking, straight-thinking, unideal, unidealistic,
      unromantic, unsentimental, utilitarian, worldly

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