Lifelike

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}, {pictorial},
               {vivid}]
       2: unaffected and natural looking; "a lifelike pose"; "a
          natural reaction" [syn: {natural}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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