Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lifelike"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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