| 单词 | lifelike |
| 释义 | lifelike (once / 7032 pages) adj Lifelike things look real, but they're not. A lifelike wax figure might look just like Queen Elizabeth, but it's actually a realistic statue. An artist whose style is described as "realism" probably paints very lifelike scenes, producing paintings that look a lot like photographs. A child's doll might be disturbingly lifelike, made to look like a real live baby. As with many words, this one started life in the seventeenth century with a completely different meaning, "likely to live." The current definition came along about a hundred years later. WORD FAMILYlifelike: unlifelike+/life: lifeless, lifelike, lifer, lifes, lives, pro-life/lifeless: lifelessly, lifelessness/lifer: lifers/pro-life: pro-lifer/pro-lifer: pro-lifers USAGE EXAMPLESSome may find her more lifelike than the UN’s latest women’s ambassador, Wonder Woman, just retired after an in-house petition and protest. The Guardian(Dec 17, 2016) Changing it into film introduces an element of science fiction or fantasy — the movies are too lifelike to be explained by special effects. New York Times(Dec 15, 2016) The lifelike, life-size dinosaurs were designed by The Creature Technology Co., which created the enormous creatures for the “Walking with Dinosaurs” arena shows. Seattle Times(Nov 24, 2016) 1adj evoking lifelike images within the mind a lifelike portrait Syn graphic, pictorial, vivid realistic aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are 2adj free from artificiality a lifelike pose Syn natural unaffected free of artificiality; sincere and genuine |
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