Synonyms for realist
ˈri ə lɪstre·al·ist

Princeton's WordNet

1. realistnoun

   a philosopher who believes that universals are real and exist independently of anyone thinking of them

2. realistnoun

   a person who accepts the world as it literally is and deals with it accordingly

3. realistnoun

   a painter who represents the world realistically and not in an idealized or romantic style

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1. • Painter
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1. List of paraphrases for "realist":

   realistic, realism

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1. Vice President Joe Biden:

   I'm no Bernie Sanders, he's a great guy by the way. He really is. I'm not a populist. But I'm a realist.

2. David Ben-Gurion:

   In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

3. Michael Gove:

   I am a realist, one of the things about politics is that you mustn't, you shouldn't, make the perfect the enemy of the good. And one of the things about this compromise is that it unites the cabinet.

4. Mike Pompeo:

   Those are the things that leaders come to see — they come to see that America must be realist and serious, we do n’t need to send 50,000 soldiers every place, but we need to use the things that America has.

5. Nicholas Wright:

   There is something of the Tony Blair about Angela Merkel, the fact that Angela Merkel comes from the pragmatist, realist part of the party, basically saying :' It's all very well having these ideals and principles, but they don't matter if we can't get into government and do anything.'.