| living | | |
| n. (cognition) | 1. life, living | the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities.; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" |
| ~ experience | the content of direct observation or participation in an event.; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly" |
| n. (group) | 2. living | people who are still living.; "save your pity for the living" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| n. (state) | 3. aliveness, animation, life, 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" |
| ~ being, beingness, existence | the state or fact of existing.; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" |
| ~ eternal life, life eternal | life without beginning or end. |
| ~ skin | a person's skin regarded as their life.; "he tried to save his skin" |
| ~ survival, endurance | a state of surviving; remaining alive. |
| n. (possession) | 4. bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support, sustenance | 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" |
| ~ resource | available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed. |
| ~ amenities, comforts, conveniences, creature comforts | things that make you comfortable and at ease.; "all the comforts of home" |
| ~ maintenance | means of maintenance of a family or group. |
| ~ meal ticket | a source of income or livelihood. |
| ~ subsistence | minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting.; "social security provided only a bare subsistence" |
| adj. (pertain) | 5. living | pertaining to living persons.; "within living memory" |
| adj. | 6. living | true to life; lifelike.; "the living image of her mother" |
| ~ realistic | aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are.; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans" |
| adj. | 7. living | (informal) absolute.; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" |
| ~ intensifier, intensive | a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies.; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier" |
| ~ absolute | perfect or complete or pure.; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol" |
| adj. | 8. living, surviving | 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" |
| ~ extant | still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost.; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk" |
| adj. | 9. living | still in active use.; "a living language" |
| ~ extant | still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost.; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk" |
| adj. | 10. living | (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried.; "carved into the living stone" |
| ~ live | 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" |
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