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rea‧lis‧tic‧ally
1 if you think about something realistically, you think about it in a practical way and according to what is actually possible : 
You can't realistically expect to win the whole competition.
You can't realistically expect to win the whole competition. [sentence adverb] Realistically, we're not going to get this finished this week.
Realistically, we're not going to get this finished this week.2 if you describe or show something realistically, you describe or show it as it is in real life : realistically painted toy soldiers The novel realistically depicts immigrant life at the beginning of the last century
realistically painted toy soldiersThe novel realistically depicts immigrant life at the beginning of the last century