LIFELIKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lifelike mean? 

• LIFELIKE (adjective)
  The adjective LIFELIKE has 2 senses:

1. evoking lifelike images within the mind

2. free from artificiality

  Familiarity information: LIFELIKE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIFELIKE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evoking lifelike images within the mind

Synonyms:

graphic; lifelike; pictorial; vivid

Context example:

a vivid description

Similar:

realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Free from artificiality

Synonyms:

lifelike; natural

Context example:

a natural reaction

Similar:

unaffected (free of artificiality; sincere and genuine)

 Context examples 

All the blame of this should have fallen upon Jo, for her naughty imitation had been too lifelike to escape detection, and the frolicsome Lambs had permitted the joke to escape.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Jo must have fallen asleep (as I dare say my reader has during this little homily), for suddenly Laurie's ghost seemed to stand before her, a substantial, lifelike ghost, leaning over her with the very look he used to wear when he felt a good deal and didn't like to show it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)