realist

Plural: realists

Noun

• A person who accepts and deals with situations as they are.
• a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them
• a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly
• a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style
• An advocate of realism; one who believes that matter, objects etc. have real existence beyond our perception of them.
• An adherent of the realism movement; an artist who seeks to portray real everyday life accurately.
• One who believes in seeing things the way they really are, as opposed to how they would like them to be.

Adj

• Eye dialect spelling of realest.

Examples

• As a Scrabble REALIST, he knew not to rely solely on getting high-value letters.
• He's the realist dude I know.

Synonyms

real-worlder

Antonyms

Cloudcuckoolander, fantasist, idealist