life-sized
life-sized adjective: full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of.
Adjective
life-sized (not comparable)
- Full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of.
- The life-sized statue was the same size as the subject, and since he had never fit in that chair, neither did the statue.
- The boy made a life-sized dummy of himself by stuffing scrunched- up newspapers into some old pyjamas.2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN
Forms of life-sized
| alternative form | lifesized |
|---|---|
| alternative form | life-size |
Questions about life-sized
- What does life-sized mean?
- Life-sized means full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of.
- What part of speech is life-sized?
- Life-sized is an adjective.
Words near life-sized in the dictionary
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