: accurately representing or imitating real life
a lifelike portrait
lifelikeness
noun
Synonyms of lifelike
Examples of lifelike in a Sentence
The graphics in the video game are more lifelike than we imagined they would be.
the eyes of the lifelike portrait seem to follow visitors around the room
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Buchanan introduced the original iteration of the CREEPER Act in 2020 after NBC 6 South Florida reported that a lifelike doll resembling an actual girl in the Miami area was being sold on Amazon and other websites after a photo of the child was stolen and her likeness appropriated.
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Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2025
Gamers will love this comfortable VR headset that brings games to life in vivid, lifelike detail.
—Bestreviews, Mercury News, 25 Nov. 2025
AlexNet’s creators discovered that the same parallel processing that helps GPUs render lifelike graphics was also great for training neural networks, in which a computer learns from data rather than relying on a programmer’s code.
—Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2025
Buchanan introduced the original iteration of the CREEPER Act in 2020 after NBC 6 South Florida reported that a lifelike doll resembling an actual girl in the Miami area was being sold on Amazon and other websites after a photo of the child was stolen and her likeness appropriated.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 21 Nov. 2025
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“Lifelike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lifelike. Accessed 5 Dec. 2025.
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lifelike
adjective
life·like
ˈlī-ˌflīk 
: accurately representing or imitating an actual living thing
a lifelike statue
lifelikeness
noun
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