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# lifelike

adjective

«lifelike» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Lifelike means so like a real person or thing that it looks alive. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifelike/#m1)

### In the lessons

in art lessons a statue or picture may be lifelike, and in stories a made figure can look real.

### Examples

- The painting of the horse was so lifelike I touched it. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifelike/#x1)
- The clay figure looked lifelike. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifelike/#x2)
- The wax model is very lifelike. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifelike/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «lifelike» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lifelike/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«lifelike» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/lifelike.html) on Mova free.