The Collaborative International Dictionary
life-size \life"-size`\, life-sized \life"-sized`\(l[imac]f"s[imac]z`), a. Of full size; of the natural size; of the same size as an original; as, a life-size sculpture; a life-size portrait of the general.
Wiktionary
a. full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of. alt. full-scale, as a model that is the same size as what it is a model of.
WordNet
Usage examples of "life-sized".
Across from the bed, tacked up for the view she was sure, was a life-sized poster of Mavis Freestone, exploding into a midair leap, arms extended, grin wide and full of fun.
Then the car was through the works and winding up a narrow, tarmacked path with a lawn on either side, interspersed with small manicured trees and wrestlers, holy men and geisha girls, laquered and life-sized.
Moorish town houses, restaurants that look like car washes, car washes, shopping centers, a fish market, a skimobile shop, an automotive accessory shop, liquor stores, a delicatessen in three clashing colors, a motel with an in-room steam bath, a motel with a relaxing vibrator bed, a car dealer, an indoor skating rink attractively done in brick and corrugated plastic, a trailer park, another motel composed of individual cabins, an automobile dealership attractively done in glass and corrugated plastic, an enormous steak house with life-sized plastic cows grazing out front in the shadow of a six-story neon cactus, a seat cover store, a discount clothing warehouse, an Italian restaurant with a leaning tower attached to it.
As we retraced our steps I glanced over my shoulder and saw him squatting on the mastaba, still as a glittering life-sized statue.
Anticipation thrilled through my limbs as I pictured marvels equaling the geese, or even the life-sized painted statues of a noble couple that had been found in another mastaba in the same cemetery.
Partway down, he paused to adjust his pack, brush off moisture and look sideways and back in at the petroglyph of a life-sized antelope.
Stopping to pick up a remarkable life-sized skull of crystal, Salter said that it represented Tezcatlipoca, chief of the Aztec gods.
In a commodious alcove, in a glow of pink light from above, was a life-sized group of musicians--statues in colored metal of a Spanish girl playing a mandora, an Italian with a slender calascione, a Russian playing his jorbon, and an African playing a banjo.
The Crystal Palace monsters were life-sized hypothetical reconstructions in plaster of Mesozoic reptiles.
A life-sized stone Iguanadon towered predatorily beside the door, above which was the head of yet another dinosaur.
Holograms of Achaeans and Trojans flicker here and there, many of them showing life-sized, full-color, three-dimensional images of the men and women as they argue or eat or make love or sleep.
On a bench before Georgina were metal and plastic ribs and rods, still unassembled but bringing to mind the idea of a life-sized model skeleton, maybe something that the gift shop of a museum would have on sale.
It was a life-sized Hindu maiden in Coate's patent artificial stone, half-nude, with a water-jug poised on her draperied hip.
This time, the bouncers are a couple of life-sized plastic action figures from Toys R Us.
You want a genuine World War Two Nazi bayonet or an inflatable, life-sized, anatomically correct female doll?