Realistic Fiction Vocabulary

adjective relating to or representing things as they are in reality; practical or pragmatic

• The project timeline needs to be realistic in order to ensure successful completion.
• Let's be realistic, we can't finish this whole pizza by ourselves.
• I'm trying to be realistic about my chances of winning the lottery.
• His dreams were so big, they were almost too realistic to believe.

adjective resembling the truth; appearing to be true or real

• The author's attention to detail and research made the historical novel incredibly verisimilar.
• The movie was so well-made that it felt totally verisimilar, like we were really there.
• The new video game graphics are so realistic, they're totally verisimilar.
• The artist's painting was so vivid and lifelike, it was almost verisimilar in its representation of nature.