true to life

1. 1.

   representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are

   “the novel about ghetto life was true to life”

   “true-to-life duck decoys”

   Synonymstrue-to-life

   Similarrealistic

Questions about true to life

What does true to life mean?

true to life means "representing things or actions or conditions as they actually are".

What is another word for true to life?

Close synonyms include true-to-life. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is true to life a common word?

true to life is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.