living

Adjective
  1. Pertaining to living persons (synset 302766901)
    "within living memory"
  2. True to life;
    Lifelike (synset 301947891)
    "the living image of her mother"
    similar to: realistic - aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are
  3. (informal) absolute (synset 300005838)
    "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"
    domain usage:
    • intensifier, intensive - a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
    • colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    similar to: absolute - perfect or complete or pure
  4. Still in existence (synset 300932115)
    "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"
    similar to: extant - still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
    same as: surviving
  5. Still in active use (synset 300932022)
    "a living language"
    similar to: extant - still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
  6. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place;
    Not mined or quarried (synset 300100425)
    "carved into the living stone"
    similar to: live - exerting force or containing energy
Noun
  1. The experience of being alive;
    The course of human events and activities (synset 105818587)
    "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
    is a type of: experience - the content of direct observation or participation in an event
    same as: life
  2. People who are still living (synset 107962404)
    "save your pity for the living"
    is a type of: people - (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
  3. The condition of living or the state of being alive (synset 113984978)
    "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"
    tells us about:
    • alive, live - possessing life
    • dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
    is a type of: being, beingness, existence, face of the earth - the state or fact of existing
    subtypes:
    same as: aliveness, animation, life
  4. The financial means whereby one lives (synset 113386459)
    "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"
    is a type of: resource - available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed
    subtypes:
    same as: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance

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