real-worlder
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.28 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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
- "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."
- "Our approach privileges the perspective of military practice. In the tutorial sessions, we put real-worlders in charge."
Etymology
From real world + -er.