Meanings
naturalistic1
- not comparableHaving the appearance of nature or realism; lifelike or realistic.
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The genius of High Hopes is in its director's ability to push both his characters and his audience to places they would never think of going. Although the situations are always naturalistic (there is not even any of the arty mise en scene Frears used in Sammy and Rosy or My Beautiful Laundrette), he is not afraid of making his characters caricatures.
1989 April 22, Michael Bronski, “National Health?”, in Gay Community News, page 6 - not comparablemedicineOf, being, pertaining to, or occurring in a real-world, everyday setting, rather than in a controlled, supervised, or clinical one.
Each core autistic participant engaged in three naturalistic conversations around the topic of loneliness with: (1) a familiar, chosen conversation partner; (2) a non-autistic stranger and (3) an autistic stranger.
2021 April 29, Gemma L. Williams, Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe, “Mutual (Mis)understanding: Reframing Autistic Pragmatic “Impairments” Using Relevance Theory”, in Frontiers in Psychology, volume 12, →DOI- not comparablespecificallymedicineRecreational; nontherapeutic; self-administered.
naturalistic2
- not comparableOf or relating to philosophical or methodological naturalism.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiverepresenting what is real; not abstract or ideal
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Finnish realistinen, naturalistinen
- realistinenhaving the appearance of nature, lifelike, realistic
- naturalistinenof or relating to naturalism
French naturaliste
- naturalisteof or relating to naturalism
German naturgetreu, realitätsnah
- naturgetreuhaving the appearance of nature, lifelike, realistic
- realitätsnahhaving the appearance of nature, lifelike, realistic
- lebensechthaving the appearance of nature, lifelike, realistic
- wirklichkeitsnahhaving the appearance of nature, lifelike, realistic
- wie im echten Lebenhaving the appearance of nature, lifelike, realistic
- naturalistischof or relating to naturalism
Norwegian Bokmål naturalistisk
- naturalistiskof or relating to naturalism
Portuguese naturalista
- naturalistaof or relating to naturalism
Spanish naturalista
- naturalistaof or relating to naturalism
Swedish naturalistisk
- naturalistiskof or relating to naturalism
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naturalistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/naturalistic
“naturalistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/naturalistic. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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