life-size

or life-sized

[ lahyf-sahyz ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

of the natural size of an object, person, etc., in life; of the actual size of a living original:
a life-size statue.

life-size

First recorded in 1835–45

Families stuff a life-size male doll with memories of the outgoing year and dress him in their clothing.

In other news, black and white pin-up shots are now officially less valuable than life-size Tiger Beat tear outs.

Scenes of various moments—eating, showering, being interrogated—are meticulously replicated almost in life size.

In one room of the exhibition, his vivid, life-size plan for the Vence Chapel includes the outline of the door to his studio.

Pistoletto uses life-size mirrors as a base on which he adds painted figures or photographic prints.

A girl of forty-two weeks showed the same excitement at the sight of a life-size painting of a cat as at that of a real cat.

Before the principal entrance, to which several flights of steps lead, stand two figures of elephants above life-size.

My own contributions consisted of life-size sketches of my wife, myself, and Bruno.

The paper was wrought in great panels, with life-size figures of orientals in the center.

It was a piet, a life-size statue of the Blessed Virgin set within a semicircle of rocks.

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