Living — synonyms, living antonyms, definition

1. living (a)

acting active alive animal animate animated breathing dynamic existing extant having life live lively mobile mortal motive operative quickening sentient strong • • •

2. living (Noun)

aliveness animation bread bread and butter business continuance endurance food keep life livelihood maintenance nourishment provision provisions subsistence support survival sustenance victuals • • • dead

living (Noun) — The experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities. ex. "he could no longer cope with the complexities of living"

living (Noun) — People who are still living. ex. "save your pity for the living"

living (Noun) — The condition of living or the state of being alive. ex. "while there's living there's hope"

living (Noun) — The financial means whereby one lives.

being beingness existence experience people resource amenities comforts conveniences creature comforts endurance eternal life life eternal maintenance meal ticket skin subsistence survival alive dead live

3. living (Verb)

being dwelling enduring existing experiencing going holding out holding up inhabiting knowing lasting living on populating subsisting surviving

living (Verb) — Be an inhabitant of; spend most of one's life in. ex. "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"

living (Verb) — Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style. ex. "we had to live frugally after the war"

living (Verb) — Continue to live through hardship or adversity. ex. "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents" ex. "These superstitions live on in the backwaters of America"

living (Verb) — Support oneself. ex. "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"

living (Verb) — Have life, be alive. ex. "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

living (Verb) — Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations. ex. "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict" ex. "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare" ex. "I lived through two divorces"

living (Verb) — Pursue a positive and satisfying existence. ex. "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"

being experiencing going through seeing Camping bacheloring baching bivouacking boarding breathing buccaneering bushwhacking camping out cashing out cohabiting dissipating domiciliating domiciling drifting eking out encamping freewheeling holding up holding water • • • live in live out

4. living (Adjective)

living (Adjective) — Pertaining to living persons. ex. "within living memory"

living (Adjective) — True to life; lifelike. ex. "the living image of her mother"

living (Adjective) — (informal) absolute. ex. "she is a living doll" ex. "scared the living daylights out of them" ex. "beat the living hell out of him"

living (Adjective) — Still in existence. ex. "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"

living (Adjective) — Still in active use. ex. "a living language"

living (Adjective) — (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried. ex. "carved into the living stone"