living
1. the experience of being alive;
the course of human events and activities (Freq. 7)
- he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
• Syn:
life
• Derivationally related forms:
live
• Hypernyms:
experience
2. people who are still living (Freq. 2)
- save your pity for the living
• Ant:
dead
• Hypernyms:
people
3. the financial means whereby one lives (Freq. 1)
- each child was expected to pay for their keep
- he applied to the state for support
- he could no longer earn his own livelihood
• Syn:
support, keep, livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance
• Derivationally related forms:
sustain (for: sustenance), keep (for: keep), support (for: support)
• Hypernyms:
resource
• Hyponyms:
comforts, creature comforts, amenities, conveniences, maintenance,
meal ticket, subsistence
4. the condition of living or the state of being alive (Freq. 1)
- while there's life there's hope
- life depends on many chemical and physical processes
• Syn:
animation, life, aliveness
• Derivationally related forms:
alive (for: aliveness), live, lifer (for: life)
• Hypernyms:
being, beingness, existence
• Hyponyms:
eternal life, life eternal, skin, survival, endurance
• Attrubites:
alive, live, dead
1. pertaining to living persons (Freq. 2)
- within living memory
2. true to life;
lifelike (Freq. 2)
- the living image of her mother
• Similar to:
realistic
3. (informal) absolute (Freq. 1)
- she is a living doll
- scared the living daylights out of them
- beat the living hell out of him
• Similar to:
absolute
• Usage Domain:
intensifier, intensive
4. 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
• Syn:
surviving
• Similar to:
extant
5. still in active use
- a living language
• Similar to:
extant
6. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place;
not mined or quarried
- carved into the living stone
• Similar to:
live
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