unfanciful
Grounded in reality
Unfanciful means lacking imagination or fantasy—practical, realistic, unadorned by whimsy.
An unfanciful account sticks to facts without embellishment.
An unfanciful person tends toward the literal and pragmatic rather than the dreamy or inventive: His unfanciful assessment of the situation left no room for optimism.
Focused on workable solutions
- down-to-earthPractical and without pretension
- no-nonsenseSerious and efficient
- sensibleShowing good judgment
- hardheadedStubbornly unyielding or practical
matter-of-fact · businesslike · functional · workable · hands-on · prosaic · grounded · levelheaded
Grounded in truth
- concreteSolid building mixture
- exactPerfectly correct, no deviation
- preciseExactly correct, no error
- accurateConforming to fact
explicit · unexaggerated · truthful · objective · realistic · verifiable · evidence-based · substantiated
Lacking decoration or ornament
- unembellishedWithout decorative additions
- unpretentiousLacking false superiority
- austereSeverely simple and unadorned
- starkSevere and unadorned
spartan · bare · simple · straightforward · unvarnished · undecorated · unostentatious · homely
pragmatic
Focused on workable solutions
- down-to-earthPractical and without pretension
- no-nonsenseSerious and efficient
- sensibleShowing good judgment
hardheaded · matter-of-fact · businesslike · functional · workable · hands-on · prosaic · grounded · levelheaded · commonsense
factual
Grounded in truth
accurate · explicit · unexaggerated · truthful · objective · realistic · verifiable · evidence-based · substantiated · documentary
unadorned
Lacking decoration or ornament
- unembellishedWithout decorative additions
- unpretentiousLacking false superiority
- austereSeverely simple and unadorned
stark · spartan · bare · simple · straightforward · unvarnished · undecorated · unostentatious · homely · utilitarian
unfancifulfanciful
Imaginatively unrealistic
creative · fantastical · whimsical · dreamy · imaginative
unfancifulwhimsical
Playfully fanciful or erratic
fanciful · capricious · quixotic · flighty · airy-fairy
unfancifulunrealistic
Lacking basis in reality
impractical · idealistic · starry-eyed · utopian · pie-in-the-sky
fancy, fanciful, fancifully, fancier, fanciest, fancies, fancied, fancying, fancifulness