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Defenition of the word living

    • Defenition of the word living

      • the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
      • the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
      • having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and animals"
      • (intensifier) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
      • (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";
      • full of life and interest; "made history a living subject"
      • still in active use; "a living language"
      • true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
      • pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
      • dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination: "living quarters"; "tree-living animals"
      • people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
      • the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
      • 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"
      • the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there''s life there''s hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
      • (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
      • dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination; "living quarters"; "tree-living animals"
      • the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
      • people who are still living
      • the financial means whereby one lives
      • the condition of living or the state of being alive
      • (informal) absolute
      • (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
      • still in active use
      • still in existence
      • true to life; lifelike
      • pertaining to living persons

    Synonyms for the word living

      • active
      • alive
      • aliveness
      • animation
      • bread and butter
      • breathing
      • existing
      • income
      • keep
      • life
      • live
      • livelihood
      • living wage
      • source of revenue
      • support
      • surviving
      • sustenance

    Similar words in the living

      • absolute
      • alive
      • extant
      • live
      • living
      • livings
      • livingston
      • livingston's
      • livingstone
      • livingstone's
      • realistic

    Hyponyms for the word living

      • amenities
      • comforts
      • conveniences
      • creature comforts
      • endurance
      • eternal life
      • life eternal
      • maintenance
      • meal ticket
      • skin
      • subsistence
      • survival

    Hypernyms for the word living

      • being
      • beingness
      • existence
      • experience
      • people
      • resource

    Antonyms for the word living

      • dead

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