true-life
adjective
True to life; realistic: a story adapted from the true-life confessions of a Bayonne Mafioso...
- Whichever situation is represented here, the painting seems like a snapshot of lion behavior, a realistic representation of a true-life event the painter witnessed firsthand.
- We highly recommend this gorgeous, briskly-told picture, which avoids all the usual conventions of the true-life disaster tale.
- Create a family map, design a crest, learn the true-life adventures of your ancestors and use their memories to make new ones.