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LIFE-SIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does life-size mean?
• LIFE-SIZE (adjective)
The adjective LIFE-SIZE has 1 sense:
1. being of the same size as an original
Familiarity information: LIFE-SIZE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being of the same size as an original
Synonyms:
full-size; life-size; life-sized; lifesize
Context example:
a life-size sculpture
Similar:
big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)
Context examples
He had pitched, as I have said, against the bulwarks, where he lay like some horrible, ungainly sort of puppet, life-size, indeed, but how different from life's colour or life's comeliness!
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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