Real-worlder

Quick meaning: Real-worlder is a noun meaning Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.

Meaning

Synonym of realist, a practical person who lives in the real world as distinguished from those perceived to inhabit cloudcuckooland or similarly detached from reality in some way.

Example Sentences

Our approach privileges the perspective of military practice. In the tutorial sessions, we put real-worlders in charge.

Another trouble within this schematic diagram is that within each school there is a division between the "real worlders"--those who recognize the world is complicated--and the "gimmicksters"--those who want to depend on a once-and-for-all problem-solving gimmick.

The scholars who found the postmodernists most outrageous were those who thought they actually were discussing the “real world.” […] What the real-worlders missed was that the extreme relativists were engaged in games of a yet another sort, language games, with double entendres and other clever word-play.

Word Forms

• real-worlders

Synonyms for real-worlder

Depending on context, synonyms include realist.

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