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Definitions: Lifelike |
LifelikeAdjective1. Evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description". 2. Unaffected and natural looking; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lifelike" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Lifelike \Life"like`\ (l[imac]f"l[imac]k`), adjective. [Compare to Lively.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: LifelikeSynonyms: graphic (adj), natural (adj), pictorial (adj), vivid (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Copy | Adjective: faithful; lifelike; (similar); close, conscientious. |
Similarity | Exact; (true); lifelike, faithful; true to nature, true to life, the very image, the very picture of; for all the world like, comme deux gouttes d'eau; as like as two peas in a pod, as like as it can stare; instar omnium, cast in the same mold, ridiculously like. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lifelike |
| English words defined with "lifelike": come to life ♦ Donatello, Donato di Betto Bardi ♦ graphic ♦ Lifely, living ♦ natural, naturalise, naturalize ♦ pictorial ♦ taxidermy ♦ vivid. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "lifelike": Artificial Life ♦ COLORIST, PHOTOGRAPHY ♦ DECORATOR, MANNEQUIN ♦ tinter, photograph ♦ visuals. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Very lifelike. (Bandits; writing credit: Harley Peyton) I think there's some deeper-seated thing which crosses the sex boundary of understanding life by building something that is lifelike. (Fast, Cheap & Out of Control; writing credit: Stephen Fossatti) | |
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| "Lifelike" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.21% of the time. "Lifelike" is used about 56 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 98.21% | 55 | 45,713 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.79% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 56 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lifelike | 33 |
lifelike sex doll | 18 |
lifelike doll | 17 |
lifelike product | 14 |
lifelike baby doll | 11 |
animal furry lifelike | 11 |
lifelike train | 8 |
lifelike dildo | 6 |
lifelike love doll | 5 |
lifelike racing | 4 |
2000 lifelike proto | 3 |
lifelike model train | 2 |
lifelike mask | 2 |
lifelike baby | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lifelike"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | si i gjallë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مشابه حى, نابض بالحياة (extravagant, life, live, vibrant), حي (active, alive, animate, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, live, lively, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nod, part, pictorial, picturesque, quarter, reanimate, recall, regenerate, section, vivid, ward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | с голяма прилика, който е като жив, като жив (breathing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 逼真 (clearly, distinctly, true to life), 如", 傳神 (vivid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vìrný (close, constant, devoted, faithful, life-like, loyal, staunch, true, true blue, trustworthy, trusty, truthful, unfailing), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | واقعی (Actual, Essential, Genuine, Literal, Real, Right, Sterling, True, Unfeigned, Veracious, Veritable, Very, Virtual), زندگی مانند. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | ressemblant a un vivant, qui semble vivant. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | naturgetreu (full scale, life size, photographic, realistic, true to life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | όμοιοσ με ζωντανό. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | כמו בחיים. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | élethű (living, realistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vivo (alive, bright, deep, live, lively, living, living person, quick, racy, raw, sharp, soul), vivido (vivid), realistico (down to earth, matter of fact, objective, realistic, soberingly). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 躍如 (graphic, vivid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いきうつし (exact resemblance), やくじょたる (graphic, vivid), やくじょ (graphic, vivid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bio (activated, afloat, alive, bright, hot, live, live person, pictorial, spring tide after neap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | realistisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ifelikelay inércia (doldrums, inertia, inertness, Lethe, passivity, rest, torpidity). (various references) natural (careless, certainly, easy, genuine, home-bred, innocent, kind, matter of course, native, natural, naturally, physical, primitive, real, reasonably, simple, undisguised, unsophisticated, unvarnished). (various references) словно живой (life-like), как живой, оживленно (merrily). (various references) kao život (life-like), kao živ (life-like). (various references) parecido (akin, alike, equal, like, likeness, resemblance, similar, similarity, such), natural (artless, coming, core, disposition, easy, elemental, fresh, matter of course, matter of fact, native, natural, nature, of course, plain, simple, temper, unstudied), como vivo y real. (various references) levande (alive, animate, live, living, on the hoof, quick, vivid), verklighetstrogen (faithful), naturtrogen. (various references) คล้ายชีวิตจริง. (various references) gerçek gibi, canlı gibi. (various references) як живий, ніби живий. (various references) giống như thật. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lifelike": lifelikeness, lifelikenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Lifelike" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: leaflike. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lifelike" (pronounced lī"flī'k) |
| 5 | -ī" f l ī' k | knifelike. |
| 4 | -f l ī' k | leaflike. |
| 3 | -l ī' k | apelike, beaklike, berrylike, businesslike, catlike, childlike, computerlike, doglike, dreamlike, eellike, eyelike, fanlike, fernlike, ghostlike, grasslike, homelike, hornlike, ladylike, lookalike, moonlike, mosslike, needlelike, netlike, pincerlike, plantlike, platelike, saltlike, sharklike, snakelike, starlike, statesmanlike, stemlike, swordlike, tomblike, toothlike, unsportsmanlike, warlike, winglike, workmanlike, wormlike. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-i-k-l-l" | |
-1 letter: elflike. | |
-2 letters: killie. | |
-3 letters: fille. | |
-4 letters: feel, fell, file, fill, flee, keef, keel, kief, kill, leek, leke, lief, life, like. | |
-5 letters: eel, eke, elf, elk, ell, fee, fie, fil, ilk, ill, kef, kif, lee, lei, lek, lie. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-i-k-l-l" | |
+4 letters: lifelikeness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 69 66 65 6C 69 6B 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .. ..-. . .-.. .. -.- . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01101001 01100110 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L i f e l i k e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0069 0066 0065 006C 0069 006B 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4675727178757771 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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