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“larger than life or larger than life”
larger than life or larger-than-life (adjective) (no comparatives)
1. Bigger than the size of an actual person or thing: Of course, the statue is larger than life.
2. Someone who has an unusually exciting, impressive, or appealing quality: Jim's father was a remarkable man who always seemed to be larger than life to his children.
2. Someone who has an unusually exciting, impressive, or appealing quality: Jim's father was a remarkable man who always seemed to be larger than life to his children.
This adjectival expression is hyphenated (larger-than-life) when it is placed immediately before the noun which it modifies.
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larg-, largi-
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