Lifelike
adjective
Looking, sounding or behaving so much like the real thing, it's hard to tell the difference.
The wax figures in the museum were so lifelike that they scared me a bit.
Often appears as...
- lifelike replica
- lifelike doll
adjective
Used to describe a piece of art, such as a drawing, painting or sculpture that looks very much like the real person or thing.
He is an incredibly talented artist; his drawings are lifelike.
Often appears as...
- lifelike portrait
- lifelike sketch
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Academic
adjective
Looking, sounding or behaving so much like the real thing, it's hard to tell the difference.
The wax figures in the museum were so lifelike that they scared me a bit.
Often appears as...
- lifelike replica
- lifelike doll
adjective
Used to describe a piece of art, such as a drawing, painting or sculpture that looks very much like the real person or thing.
He is an incredibly talented artist; his drawings are lifelike.
Often appears as...
- lifelike portrait
- lifelike sketch
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Emotive Response
Lifelike items can evoke strong emotions because they're almost indistinguishable from reality.
The lifelike robot puppy made children laugh and want to play with it.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Surprise
Lifelike objects in unexpected places can startle or surprise people.
I jumped when I saw the lifelike figure in the dark, mistaking it for a person.
Pro Tip 3/3Technological Marvel
Describing technology as lifelike emphasizes its advanced nature.
The new video game's lifelike graphics impressed even the most experienced gamers.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotive Response
Lifelike items can evoke strong emotions because they're almost indistinguishable from reality.
The lifelike robot puppy made children laugh and want to play with it.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Surprise
Lifelike objects in unexpected places can startle or surprise people.
I jumped when I saw the lifelike figure in the dark, mistaking it for a person.
Pro Tip 3/3Technological Marvel
Describing technology as lifelike emphasizes its advanced nature.
The new video game's lifelike graphics impressed even the most experienced gamers.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotive Response
Lifelike items can evoke strong emotions because they're almost indistinguishable from reality.
The lifelike robot puppy made children laugh and want to play with it.
Pro Tip 2/3Unexpected Surprise
Lifelike objects in unexpected places can startle or surprise people.
I jumped when I saw the lifelike figure in the dark, mistaking it for a person.
Pro Tip 3/3Technological Marvel
Describing technology as lifelike emphasizes its advanced nature.
The new video game's lifelike graphics impressed even the most experienced gamers.
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
information on to our offspring. If we couple the first two -- the body and the metabolism -- we can come up with a system that could perhaps move and replicate, and if we coupled these now to inheritable information, we can come up with a system that would be more lifelike, and would perhaps evolve. And so these are the things we will try to do
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Rethinking how we use...
systems which essentially means starting from nonliving components and that may sound strange at first but if you think about things that have already been done in the artificial intelligence community or even with robotics essentially what these people are doing our building lifelike technologies but they began
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The many meanings of...
Furthermore, the statue was so detailed and lifelike, down to the bulging veins in David's arm and the determination on his face, that it seemed a shame to hide it so far from the viewer. A council of politicians and artists convened to decide on a new location for the statue.
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Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
it is a dangerous thing to do you grab something in this side of your jaws it better be something awful soft so we have an animal here that really broke a lot of rules those rules are anytime you want to make chewing a true matter of lifelike
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How to spot a...
For times when you're not dealing with counterfeit masterminds, looking for simple visual cues will do. Make sure the portrait looks lifelike and not flat, the seal has perfectly even sawtooth points, the inked border is unbroken,
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The strange history of...
in a way that had never been seen before. He did this using brushes sometimes as tiny as a single badger hair. And by depicting details like Ghent landmarks, botanically identifiable flowers, and lifelike faces,
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How a Woman's Donated...
like the idea of worms crawling in and out of my body and my body decaying and and turning to dust but we're projecting lifelike experiences on death logically I have no no problem with it
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The myth of Icarus and...
He invented carpentry and all the tools used for it. He designed the first bathhouse and the first dance floor. He made sculptures so lifelike that Hercules mistook them for actual men.
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Can you still feel a...
not as a memory or vague shape, but in complete lifelike detail. They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watchband or the throb of an ingrown toenail.
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Jealousy Bites PIPE Brain...
mind if mom is on the phone or reading a book but how do you think they'll react when mom starts to shower attention on this lifelike doll
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Martin Hanczyc: The line...
information on to our offspring. If we couple the first two -- the body and the metabolism -- we can come up with a system that could perhaps move and replicate, and if we coupled these now to inheritable information, we can come up with a system that would be more lifelike, and would perhaps evolve. And so these are the things we will try to do
Video examples
Rethinking how we use...
systems which essentially means starting from nonliving components and that may sound strange at first but if you think about things that have already been done in the artificial intelligence community or even with robotics essentially what these people are doing our building lifelike technologies but they began
Video examples
The many meanings of...
Furthermore, the statue was so detailed and lifelike, down to the bulging veins in David's arm and the determination on his face, that it seemed a shame to hide it so far from the viewer. A council of politicians and artists convened to decide on a new location for the statue.
Video examples
Extreme Dinosaurs PIPE...
it is a dangerous thing to do you grab something in this side of your jaws it better be something awful soft so we have an animal here that really broke a lot of rules those rules are anytime you want to make chewing a true matter of lifelike
Video examples
How to spot a...
For times when you're not dealing with counterfeit masterminds, looking for simple visual cues will do. Make sure the portrait looks lifelike and not flat, the seal has perfectly even sawtooth points, the inked border is unbroken,
Video examples
The strange history of...
in a way that had never been seen before. He did this using brushes sometimes as tiny as a single badger hair. And by depicting details like Ghent landmarks, botanically identifiable flowers, and lifelike faces,
Video examples
How a Woman's Donated...
like the idea of worms crawling in and out of my body and my body decaying and and turning to dust but we're projecting lifelike experiences on death logically I have no no problem with it
Video examples
The myth of Icarus and...
He invented carpentry and all the tools used for it. He designed the first bathhouse and the first dance floor. He made sculptures so lifelike that Hercules mistook them for actual men.
Video examples
Can you still feel a...
not as a memory or vague shape, but in complete lifelike detail. They can flex their phantom fingers and sometimes even feel the chafe of a watchband or the throb of an ingrown toenail.
Video examples
Jealousy Bites PIPE Brain...
mind if mom is on the phone or reading a book but how do you think they'll react when mom starts to shower attention on this lifelike doll
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Quote examples
Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto.
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Allan Gurganus
American Novelist
To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
American Actor
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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James Arthur
British Musician
One of my fans made a lifelike doll of me. It was incredible - it looked just like me - but an effigy is kinda weird.
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Nick Woodman
American Businessman
What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.
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Jacob Weisberg
American Journalist
While 'The Wire' feels startlingly lifelike, it is not, in fact, a naturalistic depiction of ghetto life. That kind of realism better describes an earlier miniseries of Simon's, 'The Corner,' which was based on the book of the same title that he and Ed Burns wrote, set in the same Baltimore ghetto.
Quote examples
Allan Gurganus
American Novelist
To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.
Quote examples
Philip Seymour Hoffman
American Actor
There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.
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James Arthur
British Musician
One of my fans made a lifelike doll of me. It was incredible - it looked just like me - but an effigy is kinda weird.
Quote examples
Nick Woodman
American Businessman
What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.
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