Definition of "lifelike" []

• Accurately representing real life: a lifelike statue. See Synonyms at graphic. (adjective)

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• "Your straw men do have a certain lifelike quality to them that most trolls lack, I must say."
• "It dawned on him that he wanted to work with adult characters in lifelike relationships."
• "Zola, whose so-called lifelike pictures of the French bourgeois, of a workman, soldier, and peasant, he described as gloomy, pessimistic, and calumnious caricatures."