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| 1. | [ noun ] the experience of living; the course of human events and activities | |
| Synonyms: | life | |
| Examples: | "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" |
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| Related terms: | experience live | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] true to life; lifelike | |
| Examples: | "the living image of her mother" |
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| Related terms: | realistic | |
| 3. | [ noun ] people who are still living | |
| Examples: | "save your pity for the living" |
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| Related terms: | dead people | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] pertaining to living persons | |
| Examples: | "within living memory" |
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| 5. | [ noun ] the condition of living or the state of being alive | |
| Synonyms: | life aliveness animation | |
| Examples: | "while there's life there's hope" "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" |
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| Related terms: | being survival eternal_life skin be dead alive | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] (intensifier) absolute | |
| Examples: | "she is a living doll" "scared the living daylights out of them" "beat the living hell out of him" |
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| Related terms: | intensifier absolute | |
| 7. | [ adjective ] dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination | |
| Examples: | : "living quarters" "tree-living animals" |
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| Related terms: | dwell | |
| 8. | [ noun ] the financial means whereby one lives | |
| Synonyms: | support bread_and_butter livelihood sustenance keep | |
| 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" |
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| Related terms: | resource comforts subsistence maintenance meal_ticket sustain | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] still in active use | |
| Examples: | "a living language" |
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| Related terms: | extant | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] 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" |
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| Related terms: | extant | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] full of life and interest | |
| Examples: | "made history a living subject" |
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| Related terms: | live | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried | |
| Examples: | "carved into the living stone"; |
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| Related terms: | live | |
| 13. | [ adjective ] having life | |
| Synonyms: | live | |
| Examples: | "a live canary" "hit a live nerve" "famous living painters" "living tissue" "living plants and animals" |
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| Related terms: | alive | |
| Similar spelling: |
Livings loving Livengood Lovings |
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