Usually means: Exaggerated beyond normal proportions, grand.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word larger-than-life:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. larger-than-life: Merriam-Webster
  2. larger-than-life, larger-than-life: Collins English Dictionary
  3. larger-than-life: Vocabulary.com
  4. larger-than-life: Wiktionary
  5. larger-than-life: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. larger-than-life: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. larger-than-life: Dictionary.com
  8. larger-than-life: Rhymezone
  9. larger-than-life: FreeDictionary.org
  10. larger-than-life: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. larger-than-life: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. larger-than-life: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. larger-than-life: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. larger-than-life: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. larger-than-life: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  (only attributive) Alternative form of larger than life. [Of greater size or magnitude than is naturally or normally the case; of larger size than life-size.]

Similar:
big, large, heroic, epic, bigger-than-life, lifesize, lifesized, humungous, super gargantuan, super-gargantuan, more...

Opposite:
unassuming, humble, modest, ordinary, unremarkable

Types:
heroic, valiant, gallant, glorious, magnificent, splendid, more...

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Similar:
big, large, heroic, epic, bigger-than-life, lifesize, lifesized, humungous, super gargantuan, super-gargantuan, more...

Opposite:
unassuming, humble, modest, ordinary, unremarkable

Types:
heroic, valiant, gallant, glorious, magnificent, splendid, more...



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