unlifelike

Examples

• All

• Most critics agreed that the special effects were unlifelike, failing to create a believable world.

• If stories are to be told, a certain unlifelike density of human interaction has to be postulated.

  Academic text (1993)

• In both cases, Rome is a remote and fundamentally unlifelike object of symbolic value, an exemplum.

  Academic text (1991)

• The animation looked unlifelike, with characters that moved in unnatural ways.

Synonyms

U

unreal

vsunlifelike

28 4.2

Not real, like something from a dream

focuses on lacking realism and substance rather than feeling strange or dreamlike

C

cardboard

vsunlifelike

• Offensive

1 6.5

Very simple and flat, not believable and without depth

is about lacking resemblance to life rather than being shallow

N

nonrealistic

vsunlifelike

6.1

Not showing things as they are in real life, often like a dream

emphasizes overall lack of realism and substance rather than just appearance

N

nonmimetic

vsunlifelike

• Specialized

9.6

Not meant to copy real things, often showing abstract shapes or colours

describes lack of realism without the deliberate choice to avoid imitation

Antonyms

L

lifelike

22 3.9

That looks and moves like a real person or animal

How Lifelike

authentic

218 3.8

realistic

65 4.1

lifelike

22 3.9

unlifelike

8.5

artificial

267 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology