lifelike

/'laiflaik/

Thân thiện

The artist painted a lifelike portrait of her grandmother.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Resembling real life or a living being: Describes something that appears very similar to reality or to a living person or creature, often in terms of appearance, movement, or behavior.
   • Vivid and realistic: Describes a representation, such as a description, image, or sculpture, that is so accurate and detailed it seems almost real.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • The museum displayed a lifelike wax figure of the famous leader.
  • The artist's lifelike portrait captured every detail of her subject's expression.
  • The special effects in the movie created lifelike dinosaurs that seemed to move and breathe.

Advanced Usage

• "to be lifelike": to have the quality of resembling life.
  • The robotic dog's movements are surprisingly lifelike.
• Used to describe artistic or technical skill in creating realism.
  • Her lifelike descriptions of the forest made me feel I was truly there.

Variants and Related Words

• Life (n): The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth and functional activity.
• Lifeless (adj): Deprived of life; dead, or lacking vitality or excitement.
• Realistic (adj): Having or showing a sensible and practical idea of what can be achieved or expected; representing things in a way that is accurate and true to life.

Synonyms

• Realistic: Representing familiar things in a way that is accurate or true to life.
• Naturalistic: Derived from real life or nature, or imitating it very closely.
• True-to-life: Accurate in representing real events or situations.

Antonyms

• Unrealistic: Not showing or accepting things as they are.
• Artificial: Made or produced by human beings rather than occurring naturally, typically as a copy of something natural.
• Stiffened: Made or become stiff or rigid, lacking natural ease.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• (As) lifelike as the real thing: An expression emphasizing that an imitation is extremely realistic.
  • The museum's historical diorama is as lifelike as the real thing.
• To bring to life / To make lifelike: To make something seem real or alive.
  • The actor's brilliant performance brought the historical character to life.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. free from artificiality
   • a lifelike pose
   • a natural reaction
2. evoking lifelike images within the mind
   • pictorial poetry and prose
   • graphic accounts of battle
   • a lifelike portrait
   • a vivid description

Từ đồng nghĩa

• natural
• graphic
• pictorial
• vivid