lifelike
- adjective
- /ˈlaɪfˌlaɪk/
- The artist created a lifelike sculpture that looked like a real person.
- lifelike statues
- lifelike character
- lifelike image
Or then you start to move to much more lifelike form.
- Or then you start to move to much more lifelike form.
- And then I have these AI bots that are very attractive and increasingly lifelike.
- Some of these look more lifelike on the Phaco one, which is very interesting.
- Families can have defining moments, and certainly characters, if they are lifelike, we'll have moments that define them as well.
- As such, it has this kind of a temporality that is at the same time weirdly lifelike.
- So how many chemistry problems have solutions that are lifelike to you out there in the universe?
Examples
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Such lovely shades and so lifelike.
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Your nerve impulses get picked up by sensors that control six different sets of gears and motors inside the hand, so the movements are incredibly lifelike and precise.
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There is, as you will see, no doubt that this foundation has an incredibly lifelike feel to it.
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The clothes and the furniture are so lifelike they look natural.
Academic text (2014) -
You know, we can build extraordinary lifelike bodies, but we cannot build the brains to match.
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The hypothesis needs to be tested in a lifelike situation involving the two teachers.
Academic text (1996) -
Mark Twain's works are a treasury of lifelike character descriptions.
Academic text (1998) -
I've seen birds stuffed and mounted so lifelike... you'd swear you saw them breathing.
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Some trees on our block have been painstakingly affixed with lifelike-looking leaves in fall colors, like brown and orange.
Fiction book (1999) -
The bellman's body was off-white plastic with inlaid brass buttons; his hands were lifelike in white gloves.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
Showing things as they are in real life
Showing people and things as they are in real life
Very similar to real life in looks and detail
An image that looks almost exactly like a real photograph
So realistic it seems alive
Antonyms
How Realistic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lifelike is made of life and like, which together mean 'similar to life'. So something described as lifelike looks very real or natural.