Meaning of LIFELIKE
| Pronunciation: | | 'lIf`lIk
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- [adj] unaffected and natural looking; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction"
- [adj] evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description"
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| | Synonyms: | | graphic, natural, pictorial, realistic, unaffected, vivid |
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| | Definition: | | \Life"like`\ (l[imac]f"l[imac]k`), a. [Cf. {Lively}.]
Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate
representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- {Life"like`ness},
n. --Poe.
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| | Related Terms: | | authentic, bona fide, breathing, candid, card-carrying, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, genuine, good, graphic, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, literal, living, natural, naturalistic, original, pure, real, realistic, representative, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, speaking, sterling, sure-enough, to the life, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vivid, well-drawn, word-for-word |
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