living

1. (satellite adjective) (intensifier) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"

2. (satellite adjective) (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";

3. (satellite adjective) full of life and interest; "made history a living subject"

4. (satellite adjective) still in active use; "a living language"

5. (satellite adjective) true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"

6. (adjective) pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"

7. (adjective) dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination: "living quarters"; "tree-living animals"

8. (noun) people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
Related Words: people
Antonyms: dead

9. (satellite adjective) having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and animals"
Synonyms: live

10. (satellite adjective) 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"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania"
Synonyms: surviving

11. (noun) the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
Synonyms: life
Related Words: experience

12. (noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
Synonyms: aliveness, animation, life
Related Words: being, beingness, endurance, eternal life, existence, life eternal, skin, survival

13. (noun) the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance
Related Words: amenities, comforts, conveniences, creature comforts, maintenance, resource, subsistence



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