1. Have life, be alive
   "My grandfather lived until the end of war";
   - be
    
2. Be an inhabitant of; spend most of one's life in
   "People lived in Africa millions of years ago";
   - populate, dwell, inhabit
    
3. Lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
   "we had to live frugally after the war"
    
4. Continue to live and avoid dying
   "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "one crash victim died, the other lived"; "These superstitions live on in the backwaters of America";
   - survive, last, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out
    
5. Support oneself, esp. at a minimal level
   "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?";
   - exist, survive, subsist
    
6. Pursue a positive and satisfying existence
   "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
    
7. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
   "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";
   - know, experience

1. Actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
   "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience"; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"
    
2. Possessing life
   "a live canary";
   - alive
    
3. Abounding with life and energy
   "the club members are a really live bunch"
    
4. Exerting force or containing energy
   "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"
    
5. (electricity) charged or energized with electricity
   "a live wire";
   - hot [informal]
    
6. Charged with an explosive
   "live ammunition"; "a live bomb"
    
7. Highly reverberant
   "a live concert hall"
    
8. Elastic; rebounds readily
   "The live rubber ball bounced high";
   - bouncy, lively, resilient, springy
    
9. Of current relevance
   "a live issue"; "still a live option"
    
10. (printing) in current use or ready for use
    "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
     
11. Capable of erupting
    "a live volcano";
    - alive

1. Not recorded
   "the opera was broadcast live"

Derived forms: lived, living, livest, liver

See also: active, aliveness, animate, animation, charged, current, elastic, full of life, keep, life, live in, live out, liveborn, lively, living, loaded, reverberant, unfilmed, untaped, viable, vital, vitality

Type of: be, continue, exist, experience, go along, go on, go through, keep, proceed, see

Antonym: dead, recorded

Encyclopedia: Live, Love, Life