lifelike
/ˈlaɪflaɪk/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like a living being; resembling life; being an accurate representation.
Example Sentences
- "a lifelike portrait"
- "The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister."
- "The stories did not seem to me to touch life. […] They left me with the impression of a well-delivered stereopticon lecture, with characters about as life-like as the shadows on the screen, and whisking on and off, at the mercy of the operator."
- "But part of the movie’s nonstop fun is the way [Christopher] McQuarrie taps back into the genre’s (and this series’) games of subterfuge, misdirection, and indeterminate loyalties, beginning with the fiendishly clever rug-pull of its worst-case-scenario prologue and epitomized by the goofily irresistible sight of characters dramatically ripping off lifelike rubber masks."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *leyp- Proto-Germanic *lībanąder. Proto-Germanic *lībą Proto-West Germanic *līb Old English līf Middle English lyf English life Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English lifelike From life + -like. First attested in the 1610s.
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Inflected Forms
more lifelike (comparative)
most lifelike (superlative)