Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
true-to-life is an adjective meaning "representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are". It carries one recorded sense.
representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are
“the novel about ghetto life was true to life”
“true-to-life duck decoys”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for true-to-life come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.