lifelike en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Germanic *lībanąder. Proto-Germanic *lībą Proto-West Germanic *līb Old English līf Middle English lyf English life Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English lifelike From life + -like. First attested in the 1610s.
Meanings
- (obsolete) Likely to live.
-
Like a living being; resembling life; being an accurate representation.
a lifelike portrait
The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.
But part of the movie’s nonstop fun is the way [Christopher] McQuarrie taps back into the genre’s (and this series’) games of subterfuge, misdirection, and indeterminate loyalties, beginning with the fiendishly clever rug-pull of its worst-case-scenario prologue and epitomized by the goofily irresistible sight of characters dramatically ripping off lifelike rubber masks.
2018 July 25, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 31 Jul 2018:The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more lifelike | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most lifelike | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Relateds
Translations (16)
es natural (Like a living being, resembling life) · sv levande (Like a living being, resembling life) · pl jak żywy (Like a living being, resembling life) · fi elävä (Like a living being, resembling life) · cmn 逼真 (Like a living being, resembling life) · kk өмірдегідей (Like a living being, resembling life) · fr très ressemblant (Like a living being, resembling life) · tr canlı gibi (Like a living being, resembling life) · id hidup (Like a living being, resembling life) · nl levensecht (Like a living being, resembling life) · hu élethű (Like a living being, resembling life) · es verosímil (Like a living being, resembling life) · fr très réaliste (Like a living being, resembling life) · pl realistyczny (Like a living being, resembling life) · de lebensecht (Like a living being, resembling life) · hu életszerű (Like a living being, resembling life)