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living
('l/I/v/I//N/ )

adjective (a)

  • pertaining to living persons(adj.pert)
    Example:
    Within living memory.
    source: wordnet30
  • Being alive; having life; as, a living creature.(adjective)
    source: webster1913

noun (n)

  • the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities(noun.cognition)
    Synonym:
    life
    source: wordnet30
  • people who are still living(noun.group)
    Example:
    Save your pity for the living.
    Antonym:
    dead
    source: wordnet30
  • the condition of living or the state of being alive(noun.state)
    Synonym:
    aliveness, animation, life
    source: wordnet30
  • the financial means whereby one lives(noun.possession)
    Synonym:
    bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance
    source: wordnet30
  • The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.(noun)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • true to life; lifelike(adj.all)
    Example:
    The living image of her mother.
    source: wordnet30
  • (informal) absolute(adj.all)
    Example:
    She is a living doll.
    Scared the living daylights out of them.
    Beat the living hell out of him.
    source: wordnet30
  • still in existence(adj.all)
    Example:
    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.
    Synonym:
    surviving
    source: wordnet30
  • still in active use(adj.all)
    Example:
    A living language.
    source: wordnet30
  • (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried(adj.all)
    Example:
    Carved into the living stone.
    source: wordnet30

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