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Down-to-earth   Listen
adjective
down-to-earth  adj.  Facing reality squarely; guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory. Opposite of idealistic, unrealistic, impractical, and pie-in-the-sky.
Synonyms: hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic.






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"Down-to-earth" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have been printed about 1885. I got my copy when I was still a teenager (nth-hand; I am not really as old as all that!) and have greatly enjoyed the enlightened, yet practical and down-to-earth attitude of the writer. It seems to me a fine example of late Victorian instructional material of the unpretentious persuasion. Some of Browne's views were ahead of his time in terms of compassion and ...
— Practical Taxidermy • Montagu Browne



Words linked to "Down-to-earth" :   earthy, realistic



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