Definition of Life-sized

1. Adjective. Being of the same size as an original. "A life-size sculpture"

Exact synonyms: Full-size, Life-size, Lifesize
Similar to: Big, Large

Definition of Life-sized

1. Adjective. Full scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Life-sized

life-and-death
life-buoy
life-buoys
life-child
life-cycle costing
life-force
life-giving
life-lease
life-long
life-lore
life-of-man
life-or-death
life-size
life-sized (current term)
life-style
life-support
life-support system
life-sustaining
life-threatening
life-time
life-times
life after death
life and limb
life and soul of the party
life belt
life belts
life buoy

Literary usage of Life-sized

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures, Illustrated and Embellished with Views of the World's Famous by John Lawson Stoddard (1899)
"... and its magnificent don-ic gleams like a miniature sun surrounded by four radiant satellites. Around the walls extends a frieze of life-sized figures. ..."

2. John L. Stoddard's Lectures by John Lawson Stoddard (1898)
"Around the walls extends a frieze of life-sized figures. Yet, beautiful as it thus appears, its exterior gives only a faint hint contains. ..."

3. Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border by Archibald John Little (1901)
"... gaudily decorated and in good repair, with a life-sized tiger (image) in a pen and in a small "joss- house " of its own on the left of the entrance. ..."

4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"life-sized bust, in seventeenth-century costume, in the possession of ... life-sized, to waist, unfinished (about 1826), in National Gallery of Scotland. ..."

5. A Critical and Commercial Dictionary of the Works of Painters Comprising by Frederick Peter Seguier (1870)
"40 19 0 This master was fond of painting sacred subjects and life- sized fleures of saints. His colouring is agreeable, but his touch is not particularly ..."

6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1852)
"The most prominent of his fancy or ideal sculptures are " The Birth of Burns," an alto-rilievo ; a life-sized group, " Blind Girls reading the Scriptures ..."

7. Optical Corrections in the Sculpture of Donatello by Robert Munman (1985)
"The "Atys-Amorino" 's destination is also unknown, and, in addition, the figure is small (though life-sized) and unlikely to have been raised on a high ..."

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