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Definition of Lifelike
1. Adjective. Evoking lifelike images within the mind. "A vivid description"
2. Adjective. Free from artificiality. "A natural reaction"
Definition of Lifelike
1. a. Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait.
Definition of Lifelike
1. Adjective. Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation, as, a lifelike portrait. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lifelike
1. resembling a living thing [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lifelike
Literary usage of Lifelike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Live Language Lessons by Howard Roscoe Driggs (1917)
"13 MAKING YOUR STORY lifelike: USE OF CONVERSATION Nothing helps more to make a
story seem real than an effective use of conversation. ..."
2. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"The poor parson, Mr. Crawley, is at once the most lifelike and (in his sense)
the most improbable of his characters. He is the embodiment of Trollope's own ..."
3. Therapeutic Gazette (1898)
"The illustrations, made by the Photogravure and Color Company of New York, are
unusually good, for they possess that lifelike tint which is so difficult to ..."
4. Italian Characters in the Epoch of Unification (1890)
"fail to convey an impression so lifelike as that left by the following words :— "
The sadness which possesses me while I write is only the desire for the ..."
5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"... his own direction for the purpose, as supposed, of imparting a more lifelike
appearance to the statue, and of possibly thereby enhancing its value. ..."
6. The Law Magazine and Law Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of Jurisprudence (1861)
"There still remains " much matter to be heard and learned ;" and, in our next
number, we propose to renew our consideration of the lifelike pictures of old ..."
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