What's the difference between realistic and unrealistic?

Realistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
  • (2) But she says she is totally convinced that, as a public broadcaster, RAI has an ethical responsibility to start showing women in a more realistic light.
  • (3) You can’t prevent it,” he says, calling himself a realist.
  • (4) "If I hadn't scored that goal, I might still have ended up playing in Italy [Platt went on to play for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria] but, realistically, I'm sure it was the catalyst.
  • (5) Given his background, Boyle says, growing up in a council house near Bury, with his two sisters (one a twin) and his strict and hard-working parents (his mum worked as a dinner lady at his school), he should by rights have been a gritty social realist, but that tradition never appealed to him.
  • (6) The ordered aspect of the genetic code table makes this result a plausible starting point for studies of the origin and evolution of the genetic code: these could include, besides a more refined optimization principle at the logical level, some effects more directly related to the physico-chemical context, and the construction of realistic models incorporating both aspects.
  • (7) A realistic interpretation of neurophysiologic data on the neostriatum must take into account all cell types instead of the current view of considering it as a pool of interneurons with few output cells.
  • (8) However, he told the BBC the 2014 target was a realistic aim.
  • (9) "I know fans will be disappointed but I think they are also realistic.
  • (10) Finally, an integrated control of Chagas Disease must emphasise complementary activities such as housing improvement and the active control of blood banks to eliminate transfusional transmission, besides the development of a realistic medical care system.
  • (11) Concluding that he didn't really want a career as a gritty Northern Irish realist, Harvey decided to train as a teacher.
  • (12) The possibility of pulmonary edema from fluid overload in nonhypovolemic patients, and reluctance of field personnel to infuse fluid at the rates necessary to produce benefit raise further questions about realistic benefit of IV's in all but the most rural systems.
  • (13) Epidemiological effects of lung cancer screening have not yet been confirmed, but so many lung cancer cases have been detected and treated, that a realistic approach for the improvement of screening programs was discussed.
  • (14) In asthmatic patients with aspirin sensitivity, who undergo ASA desensitization, continuous treatment with ASA or NSAIDs is realistic.
  • (15) Evaluations of the summer program have revealed that the students have an increased academic self-concept, a more realistic view of the requirements to become a health professional, and an enhanced awareness of the health care environment.
  • (16) A way must be found to experiment with various discretionary approaches that would strike a realistic balance among competing interests.
  • (17) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
  • (18) I think we can realistically put back what we had 25 or 30 years ago.” However, the engineering projects are prohibitively expensive.
  • (19) Unemployment stands at a massive 36.7% using the most realistic definition, he noted in a June 2013 speech, with the proportion of those out of work for more than a year at 68%.
  • (20) It offers a more clinically realistic setting than models based on costs alone.

Unrealistic


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of its demands are wildly unrealistic, such as the reintroduction of direct rule and the suspension of devolution.
  • (2) However, this volume of blood is an unrealistic amount to take from the frequently febrile pediatric patient.
  • (3) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
  • (4) Or is this new low just as unrealistic as the original high?
  • (5) The simplest models make a variety of unrealistic assumptions and an outline is presented of how the assumptions of fingerprint band population frequency equality and mutation rate constancy can be relaxed to produce a more realistic and powerful model.
  • (6) Labour said it would not respond to the threat posed by Ukip by supporting unrealistic targets for net migration or proposing radical changes to the free movement of workers which would probably be rejected by the rest of the EU.
  • (7) Tony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals.
  • (8) Furthermore, a careful selection of the facts to be documented must be established, because a "complete clinical documentation" is unrealistic.
  • (9) It’s not complicated and it’s not an unrealistic wish list.
  • (10) Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.
  • (11) But he concluded: "You've been evasive, repetitive and unrealistic."
  • (12) It is a totally unrealistic, pessimistic vision about what this country can achieve."
  • (13) Our main finding is that most addicts have a strong interest in training and employment services, but their expectations about the impact of such services is often unrealistic.
  • (14) But the scale needed, the expense and the potential unintended consequences are so great that it is widely considered unrealistic.
  • (15) Because this is often unrealistic, the only other way to keep these patients free of disease is by total dental extraction.
  • (16) This implies also the tendency that the average food intake estimated through FFQs can yield unrealistically high values for items consumed frequently.
  • (17) Unrealistic aim The executive does not dispute that the magazine division holds appeal for mass-market publishers such as IPC, Bauer and National Magazines, however, all of which could save significant sums through back office synergies.
  • (18) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded a European monitoring mission in Ukraine, but conceded it would be “quite unrealistic” for the Russians to allow such a mission into Crimea .
  • (19) Urinary incontinence is a common occurrence in long term care and, given the client population, continence is often an unrealistic expectation.
  • (20) The latter calculation was lower than the ESD in three of the five instances examined, which seems unrealistic.