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for lifelike
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Lifelike \Life"like`\ (l[imac]f"l[imac]k`), a. [Cf. Lively.]
Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate
representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- Life"like`ness,
n. --Poe.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
lifelike
adj 1: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial
poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a
lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn:
graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid]
2: free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural
reaction" [syn: lifelike, natural]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "lifelike":
authentic, bona fide, breathing, candid, card-carrying,
delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, expositive,
expressive, faithful, following the letter, genuine, good, graphic,
honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, literal,
living, natural, naturalistic, original, pure, real, realistic,
representative, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, speaking,
sterling, sure-enough, to the life, true to life, true to nature,
true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming,
uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised,
undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful,
unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined,
unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified,
unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished,
verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vivid, well-drawn,
word-for-word
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