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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective naturalistic has 1 sense
- naturalistic(s = adj.all) realistic - representing what is real; not abstract or ideal; "realistic portraiture"; "a realistic novel"; "in naturalistic colors"; "the school of naturalistic writers" Derived form noun naturalism2
CIDE DICTIONARY
naturalistic, a.
- Belonging to the doctrines of naturalism. [1913 Webster]
- Closely resembling nature; realistic. W. D. Howells. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
naturalistic, adj.
1 imitating nature closely; lifelike.
2 of or according to naturalism.
3 of natural history.
1 imitating nature closely; lifelike.
2 of or according to naturalism.
3 of natural history.
Derivative
naturalistically adv.
THESAURUS
naturalistic
Cyrenaic, Eleatic, Epicurean, Marxian, Marxist, Megarian, Stoic, animist, animistic, atomistic, authentic, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, characteristic, commonsense, cosmotheistic, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, distinctive, distinguishing, eclectic, empirical, eudaemonistic, exemplary, existential, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, general, genuine, good, graphic, hedonic, hedonist, hedonistic, honest, honest-to-God, humanist, humanistic, hylomorphous, hylotheistic, idealistic, inartificial, instrumentalist, lawful, legitimate, lifelike, literal, materialist, materialistic, mechanist, mechanistic, metaphysical, monistic, natural, naturalist, naturistic, nominalist, normal, orderly, original, panlogistical, pantheistic, positivist, positivistic, pragmatic, pragmatist, pure, quintessential, rationalistic, real, realist, realistic, regular, representative, rightful, sample, scholastic, sensationalistic, simon-pure, simple, sincere, sterling, sure-enough, syncretistic, theistic, transcendentalist, transcendentalistic, true to form, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, true to type, typal, typic, typical, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unexceptional, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, usual, utilitarian, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vitalistic, vivid, voluntarist, voluntaristic, well-drawn, word-for-word
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