real life

real life

See also: real-life

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Noun

real life (countable and uncountable, plural real lives)

1. Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.
   • 2011, Julia DeVillers, Jennifer Roy, Take Two

     I knew it was just a silly quiz, but it was annoying that I couldn't even get a crush match in a magazine—or real life.

2. (by extension, sometimes capitalized) Life outside the Internet.
3. (by extension) Pressing day-to-day commitments.

   I kept meaning to look for a better-paying job, but real life intervened.

Derived terms

• real life experience
• IRL

Descendants

• → German: Reallife
• → Korean: 리얼라이프 (rieollaipeu)

Translations

life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment

Chinese: Mandarin: 現實生活／现实生活 (xiànshí shēnghuó), 真實生命／真实生命 (zhēnshí shēngmìng) Dutch: het echte leven Finnish: tosielämä, todellisuus (fi) French: vie réelle (fr) f, en vrai (fr) German: wirkliches Leben n, Reallife (de) n Greek: πραγματικότητα (el) (pragmatikótita) Hungarian: való élet Icelandic: raunveruleiki (is) m Italian: vita reale f Japanese: 実生活 (じっせいかつ, jisseikatsu), 実際の生活 (じっさいのせいかつ, jissai no seikatsu) Korean: 리얼라이프 (rieollaipeu) Polish: życie (pl) n, (literally) prawdziwe życie (pl) n, real (pl) m Portuguese: vida real f Russian: реа́льная жизнь f (reálʹnaja žiznʹ), реа́л (ru) m (reál) Spanish: vida real f Thai: ชีวิตจริง Turkish: gerçek hayat

See also

• real world
• meatspace