Crossword-Solution: REALIST 7 letters, 58 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Realist n. 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.
Realist n. An artist or writer who aims at realism in his work. See
Realism, 2.

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Word Anagrams
REALIST anagram ALISTER, ISLATER, ITSREAL, RETAILS, SALTIER, SALTIRE, SLATIER, TAILERS

We have 58 clues for the answer “REALIST”

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Practical sort ... or anagram #1 of the only seven letters used to make this puzzle 1 answer
One seeing it like it is 1 answer
One who can face facts 1 answer
One who doesn't wear rose-colored glasses 1 answer
One who faces the facts 1 answer
One who sees it like it is 1 answer
One who sees things the way they are 1 answer
One who's pragmatic about preferred party guests (7) 1 answer
One with no fancies. 1 answer
PERSON who is down-to-earth 1 answer
Person who doesn't sugarcoat things 1 answer
Person with "feet on the ground." 1 answer
Philosopher of a sort. 1 answer
Practical man. 1 answer
Practical person 1 answer
One eschewing rose-tinted glasses 1 answer
Practical thinker 1 answer
Pragmatic one 1 answer
Pragmatic sort 1 answer
REALISM follower 1 answer
Romantic's counterpart 1 answer
Someone who is pragmatic 1 answer
The facts guide his acts 1 answer
Twain or Whitman 1 answer
Type of artist or writer. 1 answer
Unidealistic one 1 answer
Writer like Hemingway. 1 answer
Writer like Steinbeck. 1 answer
person who accepts events, etc, as they are 1 answer
One accepting the world as it is 1 answer
Adherent to truth of detail. 1 answer
Almost any modern novelist. 1 answer
Anti-theorist. 1 answer
DOWN-to-earth person 1 answer
Down-to-earth one 1 answer
Down-to-earther 1 answer
Dreamer's opposite 1 answer
FACTS, person who faces 1 answer
Fact facer 1 answer
Faulkner, for example. 1 answer
Flaubert or Zola 1 answer
Grounded one 1 answer
Objective one 1 answer
Not a dreamer 1 answer
No dreamer 1 answer
Man with both feet on the ground. 1 answer
Magical ___ (Allende or García Márquez, e.g.) 1 answer
John Steinbeck, for instance. 1 answer
Idealist's opposite 1 answer
He won't kid himself 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
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greedy person
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Sentences with REALIST (5)

The President abruptly shifted his manner from the political altruist still inside him to the management realist that had made him a popular leader.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
Tolstoy the realist steps without cavil into the front rank of modern writers; Tolstoy the idealist has been constantly derided and scorned by men of like birth and education with himself--his altruism denounced as impracticable, his preaching compared with his mode of life to prove him inconsistent, if not insincere.
The Forged Coupon and Other Stories Leo Tolstoy 1995
This has kept me off the sentiment hitherto, and now I am to try: Lord! Of course Meredith can do it, and so could Shakespeare; but with all my romance, I am a realist and a prosaist, and a most fanatical lover of plain physical sensations plainly and expressly rendered; hence my perils.
Vailima Letters Robert Louis Stevenson 2013
She is as much the realist as one can be who is saturated with the romance that is California, her birthplace and her home, if such a true cosmopolite as she can be said to have a home.
Rezanov Gertrude Atherton 1996
But the realist, with a fine intemperance, will not suffer the presence of anything so dead as a convention; he shall have all fiery, all hot-pressed from nature, all charactered and notable, seizing the eye.
Essays in the Art of Writing Robert Louis Stevenson 2012

Quotes with REALIST (3)

The contemporary proliferation of bullshit also has deeper sources, in various forms of skepticism which deny that we can have any reliable access to an objective reality and which therefore reject the possibility of knowing how things truly are. These "anti-realist" doctrines undermine confidence in the value of disinterested efforts to determine what is true and what is false, and even in the intelligibility of the notion of objective inquiry. One response to this loss of c…
Harry G. Frankfurt On Bullshit
I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.
Jonathan Maberry Dust & Decay
It is better for a realist to bend his will and ethics to accommodate a true friend than it is for him to stick to his principles that may turn the friend into an adversary.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando Disciples of Fortune
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 62 times in crossword archives (1946–2024).