Dictionary Definition
lifelike adj
1 evoking lifelike images within the mind;
"pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a
lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: graphic, pictorial, vivid]
2 unaffected and natural looking; "a lifelike
pose"; "a natural reaction" [syn: natural]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
- Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate
representation; as, a lifelike portrait.
- The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.
Translations
- Chinese 逼真 bīzhēn
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
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