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True To Life

Definition: True To Life

True To Life

Adjective

1. Representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are; "the novel about ghetto life was true to life"; "true-to-life duck decoys".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: True To Life

Synonyms: true to life(p) (adj), true-to-life(a) (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: True To Life

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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.

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Crosswords: True To Life

English words defined with "true to life": living. (references)
Specialty definitions using "true to life": Myron. (references)

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Modern Usage: True To Life

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

True to Life (1943)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: True To Life

DomainTitle

Books

  • Demons of Stony River: A True to Life Adventure About North America's Meanest Animal, Alaska's Wolverine, Alias Devil Bear, Demon Bear, and Devil bea (reference)

  • Fine, but Hardly Dandy-Book II: An Expose' in True to Life Narrative (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: True To Life

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Spitz & Nathanson present When women love a play true to life. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Modern Translation: True To Life

Language Translations for "true to life"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

реалистичен (down to earth, earthbound, matter of fact, realistic, representational, representative, tough-minded). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

逼真 (clearly, distinctly, lifelike). (various references)

   

French

  

ressemblant. (various references)

   

German

  

naturgetreu (full scale, life size, lifelike, photographic, realistic). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

迫真 (reality), 写実的 (graphic, realistic). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しゃじつてき (graphic, realistic), はくし" (reality). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uetray otay ifelay

   

Turkish

  

gerçek hayattaki gibi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: True To Life

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-l-o-r-t-t-u"

-2 letters: fluorite, fruitlet, reoutfit, roulette.

-3 letters: fertile, flitter, floruit, flouter, flutier, flutter, fouette, loftier, outfeel, outfelt, outfire, outlier, retitle, tortile, trefoil, triolet, tuftier.

-4 letters: etoile, ferlie, ferule, fetter, fettle, filter, fitter, floret, fluter, fouler, fueler, futile, ireful, lefter, letter, liefer, lifter, litter, lofter, loiter, outfit, outlet, outlie, refelt, refile, reflet, refuel, refute, relief, retile.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-l-o-r-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: tetrafluoride.

 

+4 letters: fortunetelling, tetrafluorides.

 

+5 letters: fortunetellings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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