living

liv·ing (l

ng)

adj.

1. Possessing life: famous living painters; transplanted living tissue.

2. In active function or use: a living language.

3. Of persons who are alive: events within living memory.

4. Relating to the routine conduct or maintenance of life: improved living conditions in the city.

5. Full of life, interest, or vitality: made history a living subject.

6. True to life; realistic: the living image of her mother.

7. Informal Used as an intensive: beat the living hell out of his opponent in the boxing match.

1. The condition or action of maintaining life: the high cost of living.

2. A manner or style of life: preferred plain living.

3. A means of maintaining life; livelihood: made their living by hunting.

4. Chiefly British A church benefice, including the revenue attached to it.

Synonyms: living, alive, live², animate, animated, vital
These adjectives mean possessed of or exhibiting life. Living, alive, and live refer principally to organisms that are not dead: living plants; the happiest person alive; a live canary.
Animate applies to living animal as distinct from living plant life: Something animate was moving inside the box.
Animated suggests renewed life, vigor, or spirit: The argument became very animated.
Vital refers to what is characteristic of or necessary to the continuation of life: You must eat to maintain vital energy.

living

Adjective

1. possessing life; not dead or inanimate

2. currently in use or valid: a living alliance

3. seeming to be real: a living doll

4. (of people or animals) existing in the present age

5. very: the living image

6. of or like everyday life: living costs

7. of or involving those now alive: one of our greatest living actors

Noun

1. the condition of being alive

2. the manner of one's life: high living

3. one's financial means

4. Church of England a benefice

ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms

Noun	1.	living - the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" life experience - the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly"
	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" dead - people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
	3.	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" aliveness, animation, life 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
	4.	living - 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 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.	1.	living - pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
	2.	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"
	3.	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"
	4.	living - 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 extant - still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd
	5.	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"- Edward Clodd
	6.	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"

living

noun 1. livelihood, work, job, maintenance, occupation, subsistence, bread and butter (informal) sustenance, (means of) support, (source of) income

noun 2. lifestyle, ways, situation, conduct, behaviour, customs, lifestyle, way of life, mode of living

adjective 3. alive, existing, moving, active, vital, breathing, lively, vigorous, animated, animate, alive and kicking, in the land of the living (informal) quick (archaic) << OPPOSITE dead