1. The experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
   "he could no longer cope with the complexities of living";
   - life
    
2. The condition of living or the state of being alive
   "while there's living there's hope";
   - animation, life, aliveness
    
3. People who are still living
   "save your pity for the living"
    
4. The financial means whereby one lives
   "His modest salary provided a comfortable living";
   - support, keep, livelihood, bread and butter, sustenance

1. 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";
   - surviving
    
2. Still in active use
   "a living language"
    
3. Pertaining to living persons
   "within living memory"
    
4. True to life; lifelike
   "the living image of her mother"
    
5. [informal] Absolute
   "beat the living hell out of him"; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"
    
6. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
   "carved into the living stone"

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

Derived forms: livings

See also: absolute, alive, dead, extant, keep, live, live in, live out, realistic

Type of: be, being, beingness, continue, exist, existence, experience, face of the earth, go along, go on, go through, keep, people, proceed, resource, see

Antonym: dead

Encyclopedia: Living, Glimmering, Lying