lifelike

3 definitions found

lifelike - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Lifelike \Life"like`\ (l[imac]f"l[imac]k`), a. [Cf. Lively.]
     Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate
     representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- Life"like`ness,
     n. --Poe.
     [1913 Webster]

lifelike - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]
      2: free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural
         reaction" [syn: lifelike, natural]

lifelike - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "lifelike":
     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,
     word-for-word