| vital | | |
| critical, vital | (adj.) | urgently needed; absolutely necessary.; "a critical element of the plan"; "critical medical supplies"; "vital for a healthy society"; "of vital interest" |
| life-sustaining, vital | (adj.) | performing an essential function in the living body.; "vital organs"; "blood and other vital fluids"; "the loss of vital heat in shock"; "a vital spot"; "life-giving love and praise" |
| full of life, lively, vital | (adj.) | full of spirit.; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world" |
| vital | (adj.) | manifesting or characteristic of life.; "a vital, living organism"; "vital signs" |
| ephemeral | | |
| ephemeral, ephemeron | (n.) | anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form. |
| ephemeral, fugacious, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory | (adj.) | lasting a very short time.; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" |
| life | | |
| life | (n.) | a characteristic state or mode of living.; "social life"; "city life"; "real life" |
| life, living | (n.) | the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities.; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" |
| life | (n.) | the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living.; "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others" |
| aliveness, animation, life, living | (n.) | 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" |
| life, life-time, lifespan, lifetime | (n.) | the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death).; "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" |
| life | (n.) | the period between birth and the present time.; "I have known him all his life" |
| life | (n.) | the period from the present until death.; "he appointed himself emperor for life" |
| life | (n.) | a living person.; "his heroism saved a life" |
| life, liveliness, spirit, sprightliness | (n.) | animation and energy in action or expression.; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" |
| life | (n.) | living things collectively.; "the oceans are teeming with life" |
| life | (n.) | the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones.; "there is no life on the moon" |
| biography, life, life history, life story | (n.) | an account of the series of events making up a person's life. |
| life | (n.) | a motive for living.; "pottery was his life" |
| life, life sentence | (n.) | a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives.; "he got life for killing the guard" |
| being | | |
| being, beingness, existence | (n.) | the state or fact of existing.; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" |
| being, organism | (n.) | a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently. |
| existence | | |
| cosmos, creation, existence, macrocosm, universe, world | (n.) | everything that exists anywhere.; "they study the evolution of the universe"; "the biggest tree in existence" |
| animate | | |
| animate, enliven, exalt, inspire, invigorate | (v.) | heighten or intensify.; "These paintings exalt the imagination" |
| animate, animise, animize | (v.) | give lifelike qualities to.; "animated cartoons" |
| animate, enliven, invigorate, liven, liven up | (v.) | make lively.; "let's liven up this room a bit" |
| animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, revivify, vivify | (v.) | give new life or energy to.; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" |
| animate | (adj.) | belonging to the class of nouns that denote living beings.; "the word `dog' is animate" |
| animate | (adj.) | endowed with animal life as distinguished from plant life.; "we are animate beings" |
| animate, sentient | (adj.) | endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness.; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage" |
| live | | |
| dwell, inhabit, live, populate | (v.) | inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of.; "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" |
| live | (v.) | lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style.; "we had to live frugally after the war" |
| endure, go, hold out, hold up, last, live, live on, survive | (v.) | continue to live through hardship or adversity.; "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?" |
| exist, live, subsist, survive | (v.) | support oneself.; "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" |
| be, live | (v.) | have life, be alive.; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" |
| experience, know, live | (v.) | have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.; "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" |
| live | (v.) | pursue a positive and satisfying existence.; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" |
| live, unrecorded | (adj.) | actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing.; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience" |
| live | (adj.) | exerting force or containing energy.; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play" |
| alive, live | (adj.) | possessing life.; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary" |
| live | (adj.) | highly reverberant.; "a live concert hall" |
| live | (adj.) | charged with an explosive.; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb" |
| bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy | (adj.) | elastic; rebounds readily.; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" |
| live | (adj.) | abounding with life and energy.; "the club members are a really live bunch" |
| live | (adj.) | in current use or ready for use.; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" |
| live | (adj.) | of current relevance.; "a live issue"; "still a live option" |
| hot, live | (adj.) | charged or energized with electricity.; "a hot wire"; "a live wire" |
| alive, live | (adj.) | capable of erupting.; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive" |
| live | (adv.) | not recorded.; "the opera was broadcast live" |
| alive | | |
| alive | (adj.) | (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit.; "she was wonderfully alive for her age"; "a face alive with mischief" |
| alive, animated | (adj.) | having life or vigor or spirit.; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news" |
| alive | (adj.) | (followed by `to' or `of') aware of.; "is alive to the moods of others" |
| active, alive | (adj.) | in operation.; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition" |
| alert, alive, awake | (adj.) | mentally perceptive and responsive.; "an alert mind"; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament" |
| living | | |
| living | (n.) | people who are still living.; "save your pity for the living" |
| bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenance | (n.) | 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" |
| living | (adj.) | pertaining to living persons.; "within living memory" |
| living | (adj.) | true to life; lifelike.; "the living image of her mother" |
| living | (adj.) | (informal) absolute.; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" |
| living, surviving | (adj.) | 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" |
| living | (adj.) | still in active use.; "a living language" |
| living | (adj.) | (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried.; "carved into the living stone" |
| survive | | |
| come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive | (v.) | continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.).; "He survived the cancer against all odds" |
| outlast, outlive, survive | (v.) | live longer than.; "She outlived her husband by many years" |
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