true to life
Matching actual experience
True to life describes something that accurately represents reality, especially in art or storytelling.
A true-to-life portrait captures how someone actually looks.
A true-to-life account of war doesn't romanticize combat.
The novel's dialogue felt true to life—exactly how people actually talk.
- lifelikeResembling the real thing
- realisticTrue to life
- naturalisticImitating actual appearance
- authenticVerified as original
- mimeticRelating to imitation
verisimilar · faithful · warts and all · documentary · fly on the wall · unvarnished · believable · genuine · cinéma vérité · credible · plausible · accurate · real · telling it like it is · straight shooter · graphic · convincing · honest
- "life" phraseslifeblood, nightlife, wildlife, lowlife, highlife
- naturalismnaturalism, literary realism, realism, determinism, empiricism
- realismrealism, representational, figurative, naturalism, realist art
- photo termssharp, blurry, JPEG, bright, dark
- image qualitysharpness, clarity, detail, resolution, definition
- Realist Cinemaneorealism, location shooting, social realism, non-actors, documentary style
true to lifefantastical
Extravagantly unreal or imaginary
fictional · imaginary · make-believe · mythical · fairy-tale
true to lifestylized
Given artistic treatment
abstract · exaggerated · cartoonish · caricatured · idealized
true to lifeartificial
Made, not natural
fake · phony · contrived · forced · inauthentic
life, true, truth, truly, untrue, truthful, trustworthy, trusty, truthiness