living

(noun) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities. Synonyms: life. Example: "He could no longer cope with the complexities of life."

(noun) people who are still living. Example: "Save your pity for the living."

(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive. Synonyms: animation, life, aliveness. Examples: "While there's life there's hope." "Life depends on many chemical and physical processes."

(noun) the financial means whereby one lives. Synonyms: support, keep, livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance. Examples: "Each child was expected to pay for their keep." "He applied to the state for support." "He could no longer earn his own livelihood."

(verb) inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of. Synonyms: populate, dwell, live, inhabit. Examples: "People lived in africa millions of years ago." "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted." "This kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean." "Deer are populating the woods."

(verb) lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style. Synonyms: live. Example: "We had to live frugally after the war."

(verb) continue to live through hardship or adversity. Synonyms: survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out. Examples: "We went without water and food for 3 days." "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of america." "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents." "How long can a person last without food and water?."

(verb) support oneself. Synonyms: exist, survive, live, subsist. Examples: "He could barely exist on such a low wage." "Can you live on $2000 a month in new york city?." "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day."

(verb) have life, be alive. Synonyms: be, live. Examples: "Our great leader is no more." "My grandfather lived until the end of war."

(verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations. Synonyms: know, experience, live. Examples: "I know the feeling!." "Have you ever known hunger?." "I have lived a kind of hell when i was a drug addict." "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare." "I lived through two divorces."

(verb) pursue a positive and satisfying existence. Synonyms: live. Example: "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live."

(adj) pertaining to living persons. Example: "Within living memory."

(adj) true to life; lifelike. Example: "The living image of her mother."

(adj) (informal) absolute. Examples: "She is a living doll." "Scared the living daylights out of them." "Beat the living hell out of him."

(adj) still in existence. Synonyms: surviving. Examples: "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."

(adj) still in active use. Example: "A living language."

(adj) (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried. Synonyms: living(prenominal). Example: "Carved into the living stone";."