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practical, pragmatic, down-to-earth, hardheaded
adj. guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard-nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics"
Fuzzynyms (6)
earthy
adj. not far removed from or suggestive of nature; "the earthy taste of warm milk fresh from the cow"; "earthy smells of new-mown grass"
unaffected
adj. undergoing no change when acted upon; "entirely unaffected by each other's writings"; "fibers remained apparently unaffected by the treatment"
sharp, astute, shrewd
adj. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
unromantic
adj. neither expressive of nor exciting sexual love or romance
Synonyms (10)
pictorial, lifelike, vivid, graphic
adj. evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"
living
adj. true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
real
adj. coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson
true-to-life, true to life
adj. representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are; "the novel about ghetto life was true to life"; "true-to-life duck decoys"
virtual, practical
adj. being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin"
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hard-nosed
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