in real life
Definition of in real life
: in a real situation : in actual existence We can laugh at things in movies that would scare us in real life.
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: of or relating to fixed, permanent, or immovable things (such as lands or tenements)
: not artificial, fraudulent, or illusory : genuine
: being precisely what the name implies
: a real thing
: a mathematically real quantity
: very, really
: a former monetary unit and coin of Spain and its possessions
: a former monetary unit and coin of Portugal
: the quality that distinguishes a vital and functional being from a dead body
: a principle or force that is considered to underlie the distinctive quality of animate beings
: an organismic state characterized by capacity for metabolism (see metabolism 1), growth, reaction to stimuli, and reproduction
: of or relating to animate being
: lifelong
: using a living model
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