Lifelike

/ˈlaɪflaɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation.

Example Sentences

a lifelike portrait

The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.

The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.

But part of the movie’s nonstop fun is the way [Christopher] McQuarrie taps back into the genre’s (and this series’) games of subterfuge, misdirection, and indeterminate loyalties, beginning with the fiendishly clever rug-pull of its worst-case-scenario prologue and epitomized by the goofily irresistible sight of characters dramatically ripping off lifelike rubber masks.

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• more lifelike
• most lifelike

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