living

Meanings

• the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
• people who are still living
  • "save your pity for the living"
• the condition of living or the state of being alive
• the financial means whereby one lives
• inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
• lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
• continue to live through hardship or adversity
• support oneself
• have life, be alive
• have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
• pursue a positive and satisfying existence
• pertaining to living persons
  • "within living memory"
• true to life; lifelike
  • "the living image of her mother"
• (informal) absolute
  • "she is a living doll"
  • "scared the living daylights out of them"
  • "beat the living hell out of him"
• still in existence
  • "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"
• still in active use
  • "a living language"
• (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
  • "carved into the living stone"

Synonyms

aliveness, animation, be, bread and butter, dwell, endure, exist, experience, go, hold out, hold up, inhabit, keep, know, last, life, live, live on, livelihood, populate, subsist, support, survive, surviving, sustenance