semirealistic

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

semi- +‎ realistic

Adjective[edit]

semirealistic (not comparable)

  1. Partly realistic.
    • 2009 August 1, William Grimes, “Tony Rosenthal, Sculptor of Public Art, Dies at 94”, in New York Times[1]:
      On returning to Chicago, he approached Archipenko, who was living in Chicago at the time, and arranged to receive lessons in exchange for casting some of Archipenko’s terra-cotta figures. Mr. Rosenthal, who worked in a semirealistic figurative style, did his first commission, “A Nubian Slave,” for the Elgin Watch Company building at the 1939 World’s Fair.