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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lifelike \Life"like'\ (l[imac]f"l[imac]k'), adjective [Cf. {Lively}.] Like a living being; resembling life; giving an accurate representation; as, a lifelike portrait. -- {Life"like'ness}, n. --Poe.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lifelike
adjective
1: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: {graphic}, {pictorial}, {vivid}]
2: unaffected and natural looking; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" [syn: {natural}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
77 Moby Thesaurus words for "lifelike": authentic, bona fide, breathing, candid, card-carrying, delineative, depictive, descriptive, dinkum, expositive, expressive, faithful, following the letter, genuine, good, graphic, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, lawful, legitimate, literal, living, natural, naturalistic, original, pure, real, realistic, representative, rightful, simon-pure, simple, sincere, speaking, sterling, sure-enough, to the life, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, vivid, well-drawn, word-for-word
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