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life-size

life-size

14 3.7
The same size as a real person or thing
  • adjective
  • /ˈlaɪf saɪz/
translation icon : a tamaño natural
  • The museum displayed a life-size replica of the famous dinosaur skeleton for visitors to admire.
  • life-size figure
  • life-size statue
  • life-size sculpture

I went, Oh my God, I went to life-size monopoly in London.

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Examples

  • All around us were life-size bronze sculptures of men lost in prayer.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • When I was a little girl for Christmas, I was given a life-size Barbie.

  • Now, for real, this is a life-size photo.

  • So this is roughly life-size for an adult human brain.

  • Black Sam revealed a life-size wax figure at the late great news.

  • OK, that's an actual life-size picture of him by the way.

  • It's a full-length, life-size figure.

  • There's a life-size bronze statue of you standing out there somewhere.

  • And to promote Seinfeld Netflix, they built a life-size version of that Lego set.

  • The painting presents us with a life-size female figure that fills the canvas almost completely and dominates its space.

    Academic text (2015)

Synonyms

life-sized
vslife-size
4 3.7

The same size as the real person or thing it shows

is the same in meaning but uses a different word form

How Big

huge
1.0
large
1.0
life-size
14 3.7
medium
162 1.3
small
1.0
tiny
1.0

Surface Forms

life-size positive
life sized positive

Morphology

life-size = life + size (transparent) = life + size

The adjective is a straightforward compound of 'life' + 'size' meaning 'of the same size as life', which learners can derive from the components.

Etymology

Life-size is made of two simple parts: life ('real life') and size ('how big'). So a life-size model is the same size as the real thing.