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Realistic vs Realizable - What's the difference?

realistic | realizable |

As adjectives the difference between realistic and realizable

is that realistic is expressed or represented as being accurate while realizable is capable of being realized or achieved.

realistic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Expressed or represented as being accurate.
    • A ''realistic'' appraisal of the situation.
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    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Tom Fordyce , title=Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.}}
  • Relating to the representation of objects, actions or conditions as they actually are or were.
    • A ''realistic'' novel about the Victorian poor.

    Antonyms

    * unrealistic * utopian

    Derived terms

    * realisticity * realisticness

    Related terms

    * real * realism * realist * reality * realize

    Anagrams

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    realizable

    English

    Alternative forms

    * realisable (non-Oxford British spelling)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of being realized or achieved.

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