lifelike

English

Etymology

From life +‎ -like.

Adjective

lifelike (comparative more lifelike, superlative most lifelike)

1. Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation

   a lifelike portrait

   The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 31 July 2018:

     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.

Translations

Like a living being, resembling life

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 逼真 (zh) (bīzhēn)

• Dutch: levensecht (nl)
• Finnish: elävä (fi)
• French: très réaliste, très ressemblant
• German: lebensecht (de)
• Hungarian: életszerű (hu), élethű (hu)
• Indonesian: hidup (id)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: jak żywy, realistyczny (pl)
• Spanish: natural (es), verosímil (es)
• Swedish: levande (sv)
• Turkish: canlı gibi

See also

• lifesize

Anagrams

• filelike