英和和英

名詞

real life (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 real lives)

1. Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama.
2. A person or thing that exists in reality (vs. fictional).
   • 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.

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

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

派生語

• real life experience
• IRL

派生した語

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

参考

• real world
• meatspace

形容詞

real-life (comparative more real-life, superlative most real-life)

1. As happens in real life; not fictional or theoretical; actual as opposed to believed or assumed.

   He was a real-life detective before playing one in the movies.

   • 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

     Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

   • 2019, Li Huang; James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7:

     In addition, as far as we were aware, there were no published data that quantified real-life speech practices in Singapore beyond census reportage, but we had no reason to conclude a priori that the distribution of languages spoken at NIE would match census data.