lifelike

Etymology

life + -like

adj

1. Like a living being, resembling life, giving an accurate representation
   a lifelike portrait
   The robot was so lifelike, Jack could hardly tell it apart from his sister.
   But part of the movie’s nonstop fun is the way [Christopher] McQuarrie taps back into the genre’s (and this series’) games of subterfuge, misdirection, and indeterminate loyalties, beginning with the fiendishly clever rug-pull of its worst-case-scenario prologue and epitomized by the goofily irresistible sight of characters dramatically ripping off lifelike rubber masks. 25 July 2018, A. A. Dowd, “Fallout may be the Most Breathlessly Intense Mission: Impossible Adventure Yet”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2018-07-31