living

• (a) pertaining to living persons
  • within living memory
• (s) true to life; lifelike
  • the living image of her mother
• (s) (informal) absolute
  • she is a living doll
  • scared the living daylights out of them
  • beat the living hell out of him
• (s) 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
  surviving,
• (s) still in active use
  • a living language
• (s) (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
  • carved into the living stone";

Nouns

• (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) people who are still living
  • save your pity for the 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
  aliveness, animation, life,
• (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
  bread and butter, keep, livelihood, sustenance, support,

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