real life

Speech parts

1. real life - Noun

2. real life - Adjective

Meaning

the practical world as opposed to the academic world

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

real-life

Synonyms

real world reality virtual actuality corporeality corporality meatspace

Antonyms

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Hypernyms

world reality

Examples

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. Joseph Conrad

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. Charlotte Brontë

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. Simone Weil

I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me. Ingrid Bergman

Life is real Life is earnest And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Exquisite nature, daydreams, and music say one thing, real life another. Anton Chekhov

Close letter words and terms

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