lifelike as an adjective: - 1
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lifelike
adjective
1 lifelike
Evoking lifelike images within the mind:
— A lifelike portrait.
synonyms: graphic, pictorial, vivid.
Roget 17:
similar;
resembling
etc.
v.;
like,
alike;
twin.
analogous,
analogical;
parallel,
of a piece [Fr.];
such as,
so;
homoiousian†.
connatural†,
congener,
allied to;
akin to
etc.
(consanguineous)
11.
approximate,
much the same,
near,
close,
something like,
sort of,
in the ballpark,
such like;
a show of;
mock,
pseudo,
simulating,
representing.
exact
etc.
(true)
494;
lifelike,
faithful;
true to nature,
true to life,
the very image,
the very picture of;
for all the world like,
comme deux gouttes d'eau [Fr.];
as like as two peas in a pod,
as like as it can stare;
instar omnium [Lat.],
cast in the same mold,
ridiculously like.
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Roget 21:
faithful;
lifelike
etc.
(similar)
17;
close,
conscientious.
unoriginal,
imitative,
derivative.
2 lifelike
Free from artificiality:
— A lifelike pose.
synonym: natural.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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