Meanings
- not comparablePartly realistic.
1 more example
On returning to Chicago, he approached Archipenko, who was living in Chicago at the time, and arranged to receive lessons in exchange for casting some of Archipenko’s terra-cotta figures. Mr. Rosenthal, who worked in a semirealistic figurative style, did his first commission, “A Nubian Slave,” for the Elgin Watch Company building at the 1939 World’s Fair.
2009 August 1, William Grimes, “Tony Rosenthal, Sculptor of Public Art, Dies at 94”, in New York Times
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*sem-
- Proto-Indo-European*sēmi
- Latinsēmi-
- Englishsemi-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*(H)reh₁ís
- Proto-Italic*reis
- Classical Latinrēs
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂el-
- Proto-Indo-European*h₂élisder.?
- Late Latinreālis
- Old Frenchree
- Middle Englishreal
- Englishreal
- Englishrealist
- Englishrealistic
- Englishsemirealistic
Cite this entry
semirealistic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semirealistic
“semirealistic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semirealistic. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “semirealistic,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/semirealistic.
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