unlifelike

American  

[uhn-lahyf-lahyk] / ʌnˈlaɪfˌlaɪk /

adjective

1. not lifelike; similar to a real person or thing, but not convincingly so.

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Other Word Forms

• unlifelikeness noun

Example Sentences

Perhaps it is the place of all others where one gets furthest away from the thought of reality, where one is readiest to wish for the unlifelike and to love the impossible.

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They stood there together in that strange silence, hearing only the unlifelike breathing of the man passing from life.

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Before his time the frescoes, like the illuminations in the manuscripts of which we have spoken in a previous chapter, were exceedingly stiff and unlifelike.

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And the wink was almost as unlifelike and uncanny as the bird.

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The novelist or poet is a difficult person for stage treatment; the pictures of the dramatist in the theatre are curiously unlifelike—as unlifelike as the theatrical managers on the stage.

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