real-life

[ ree-uh l-lahyf, reel- ]

/ ˈri əlˌlaɪf, ˈril- /

existing or happening in reality: real-life drama.

Words nearby real-life

First recorded in 1830–40

The Real-Life ‘Downton’ Millionairesses Who Changed BritainBy Tim Teeman Lady Grantham of ‘Downton Abbey’ is far from an anomaly.
Six Must-Read Stories About Gay Mormon Husbands and Iranian Drug Wars|The Daily Beast|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But burning, rioting, and looting are disgraceful—and they make for real-life victims we somehow never hear about.
It’s Time to Hold Protesters Accountable|Ron Christie|December 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The renowned theoretical physicist has for years been a proponent of real-life, NASA-led interstellar travel.
Meet Kip Thorne, the Man Who Crafted the Artful Science of ‘Interstellar’|Asawin Suebsaeng|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The real-life reporting wound up informing the plot of the novel and some of the characters.
How The Cold War Endgame Played Out In The Rubble Of The Berlin Wall|William O’Connor|November 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

That Tarantino never opened a real-life Big Kahuna Burger out in L.A. seems like a huge missed opportunity.
The Secrets of ‘Pulp Fiction’: 20 Things You Didn’t Know About the Movie on Its 20th Anniversary|Marlow Stern|October 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The fictitious sufferings of "Thaddeus of Warsaw," are transcended in real-life misery every day, and by natures quite as noble.
Pencillings by the Way|N. Parker Willis
But she was so tired that none of the real-life things, in which usually she revelled, were worth living for.
Buff: A Collie and other dog-stories|Albert Payson Terhune
In both models, corresponding to real-life situations, language is constituted as part of the experience.
The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin
He would never develop into such a contender; nor does one real-life fighter in fifty.
Buff: A Collie and other dog-stories|Albert Payson Terhune
We do, however, constantly apply to real-life crises expressions borrowed more or less directly from the terminology of the drama.
Play-Making|William Archer