living

Plural: livings

Noun

• The means of supporting one's existence; livelihood.
• the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
• people who are still living
  • "save your pity for the living"
• the condition of living or the state of being alive
• the financial means whereby one lives
• The state of being alive.
• Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
• A style of life.
• Those who are alive: living people.
• A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

Verb

• inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
• lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
• continue to live through hardship or adversity
• support oneself
• have life, be alive
• have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
• pursue a positive and satisfying existence
• present participle of live

Adjective

• pertaining to living persons
  • "within living memory"

Adjective Satellite

• true to life; lifelike
  • "the living image of her mother"
• (informal) absolute
  • "she is a living doll"
  • "scared the living daylights out of them"
  • "beat the living hell out of him"
• 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"
• still in active use
  • "a living language"
• (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
  • "carved into the living stone"

Adj

• Having life; alive.
• In use or existing.
• True to life.
• Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
• Continually updated; not static
• Used as an intensifier.

Examples

• a living, breathing child
• Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
• He almost beat the living daylights out of me.
• HTML is a living standard.
• Hunanese is a living language.
• in the land of the living
• it's a living
• plain living
• Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
• Some professional players make a living from competitive Words With Friends tournaments.
• Some say that the spirits of the departed walk among the living, though most of us do not see them.
• The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
• This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
• What do you do for a living?

Synonyms

aliveness, animation, be, bread and butter, dwell, endure, exist, experience, go, hold out, hold up, inhabit, keep, know, last, life, live, live on, livelihood, populate, subsist, support, survive, surviving, sustenance, alive, blasted, damned, doggone, extant, lifelike, lifey, limned, lively, naturalistic, quick#Noun, stinking, vital

Antonyms

dead, ;, dead#Noun, deceased#Noun, departed#Noun, nonliving

Related Words

alive, life, live

Anagrams of living