Definition: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
Usage: he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
Similar words: experience
Definition: the content of direct observation or participation in an event
Usage: he had a religious experience; he recalled the experience vividly
Synonyms: living
Definition: people who are still living
Usage: save your pity for the living
Similar words: people
Definition: (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
Usage: old people; there were at least 200 people in the audience
Synonyms: bread and butter, livelihood, living, keep, support, sustenance
Definition: the financial means whereby one lives
Usage: each child was expected to pay for their keep; he applied to the state for support; he could no longer earn his own livelihood
Similar words: resource
Definition: available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed
Synonyms: life, living, aliveness, animation
Definition: the condition of living or the state of being alive
Usage: while there's life there's hope; life depends on many chemical and physical processes
Similar words: existence, being, beingness
Definition: the state or fact of existing
Usage: a point of view gradually coming into being; laws in existence for centuries
Synonyms: living
Definition: (informal) absolute
Usage: she is a living doll; scared the living daylights out of them; beat the living hell out of him
Similar words: absolute
Definition: perfect or complete or pure
Usage: absolute loyalty; absolute silence; absolute truth; absolute alcohol
Synonyms: living
Definition: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
Usage: carved into the living stone;
Similar words: live
Definition: exerting force or containing energy
Usage: 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
Synonyms: living
Definition: still in active use
Usage: a living language
Similar words: extant
Definition: still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
Usage: extant manuscripts; specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk- Edward Clodd
Definition: still in existence
Usage: 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 words: extant
Definition: still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost
Usage: extant manuscripts; specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk- Edward Clodd
Synonyms: living
Definition: true to life; lifelike
Usage: the living image of her mother
Similar words: realistic
Definition: aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are
Usage: 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