Lifelike

Quick meaning: Lifelike is an adjective meaning Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation.

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.

Synonyms for lifelike

Depending on context, synonyms include vivid, natural, pictorial, realistic, graphic, unaffected.

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