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  • adjective



  • as in operating



  • as in existing



  • as in breathing



  • as in natural

  • noun



  • as in work

  • verb



  • as in residing



  • as in being

  • as in operating
  • as in existing
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  • as in residing
  • as in being


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living
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adjective

Definition of livingnext

1

as in operating

being in effective operation

a living tradition of the holiday season a living culture that has survived a number of foreign invasions

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance

  • operating

  • operational

  • operative

  • live

  • functioning

  • working

  • running

  • going

  • on

  • active

  • in force

  • functional

  • alive

  • on line

  • operable

  • in commission

  • into commission

  • in gear

  • producing

  • viable

  • serving

  • performing

  • flourishing

  • employable

  • effective

  • thriving

  • usable

  • effectual

  • productive

  • useful

  • useable

  • workable

  • busy

  • yielding

  • humming

  • bustling

  • dynamic

  • roaring

  • astir


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dead

  • broken

  • inactive

  • inoperative

  • nonfunctioning

  • useless

  • nonoperative

  • ineffective

  • arrested

  • ineffectual

  • nonactivated

  • nonoperational

  • nonoperating

  • nonfunctional

  • idle

  • dormant

  • kaput

  • quiescent

  • inert

  • unusable

  • fallow

  • lifeless

  • decommissioned

  • asleep

  • unworkable

  • deactivated

  • sleepy

  • kaputt

  • unproductive

  • latent

  • inoperable

  • nonproductive

  • stagnating

  • vegetating

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  • dead

  • broken

  • inactive

  • inoperative

  • nonfunctioning

  • useless

  • nonoperative

  • ineffective

  • arrested

  • ineffectual

  • nonactivated

  • nonoperational

  • nonoperating

  • nonfunctional

  • idle

  • dormant

  • kaput

  • quiescent

  • inert

  • unusable

  • fallow

  • lifeless

  • decommissioned

  • asleep

  • unworkable

  • deactivated

  • sleepy

  • kaputt

  • unproductive

  • latent

  • inoperable

  • nonproductive

  • stagnating

  • vegetating

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2

as in existing

having being at the present time

there are fewer than a dozen living former presidents

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • existing

  • existent

  • around

  • extant

  • working

  • alive

  • operating

  • functioning

  • active

  • busy

  • flourishing


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dead

  • extinct

  • destroyed

  • gone

  • defunct

  • lost

  • departed

  • nonextant

  • nonexistent

  • exterminated

  • idle

  • inactive

  • inert

  • kaput

  • kaputt

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  • dead

  • extinct

  • destroyed

  • gone

  • defunct

  • lost

  • departed

  • nonextant

  • nonexistent

  • exterminated

  • idle

  • inactive

  • inert

  • kaput

  • kaputt

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3

as in breathing

having or showing life

is your hamster still living?

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • breathing

  • alive

  • live

  • animate

  • active

  • surviving

  • existing

  • going

  • animated

  • lively

  • dynamic

  • thriving

  • current

  • prevailing

  • existent

  • quick

  • extant

  • vibrant

  • resurrected

  • vigorous

  • vital

  • vivacious


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dying

  • dead

  • deceased

  • nonliving

  • cold

  • inanimate

  • lifeless

  • departed

  • asleep

  • defunct

  • expired

  • breathless

  • fading

  • moribund

  • resting

  • stillborn

  • gone

  • absent

  • extinct

  • ghostly

  • nonexistent

  • fallen

  • lost

  • finished

  • vanished

  • ghostlike

  • terminated

  • desert

  • barren

  • lapsed

  • reposing

  • wiped out

  • zombielike

  • ghosty

  • perished

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  • dying

  • dead

  • deceased

  • nonliving

  • cold

  • inanimate

  • lifeless

  • departed

  • asleep

  • defunct

  • expired

  • breathless

  • fading

  • moribund

  • resting

  • stillborn

  • gone

  • absent

  • extinct

  • ghostly

  • nonexistent

  • fallen

  • lost

  • finished

  • vanished

  • ghostlike

  • terminated

  • desert

  • barren

  • lapsed

  • reposing

  • wiped out

  • zombielike

  • ghosty

  • perished

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4

as in natural

closely resembling the object imitated

an outdoor museum that is a living re-creation of a typical New England village circa 1840

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • natural

  • near

  • realistic

  • naturalistic

  • like

  • comparable

  • resembling

  • naturalist

  • matching

  • lifelike

  • similar

  • threedimensional

  • true

  • vivid

  • graphic

  • faithful

  • alike

  • compelling

  • convincing

  • close

  • analogous

  • akin

  • photorealistic

  • accurate

  • graphical

  • approximate

  • expressive

  • verisimilar

  • gritty


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • off

  • dissimilar

  • unlike

  • different

  • unnatural

  • unrealistic

  • disparate

  • unmatched

  • incomparable

  • nonnatural

  • contrasting

  • nonrealistic

  • fake

  • mock

  • phony

  • contrasted

  • sham

  • unalike

  • phoney

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  • off

  • dissimilar

  • unlike

  • different

  • unnatural

  • unrealistic

  • disparate

  • unmatched

  • incomparable

  • nonnatural

  • contrasting

  • nonrealistic

  • fake

  • mock

  • phony

  • contrasted

  • sham

  • unalike

  • phoney

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living

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noun

as in work

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • work

  • occupation

  • employment

  • business

  • livelihood

  • enterprise

  • profession

  • calling

  • lay

  • trade

  • vocation

  • game

  • art

  • field

  • racket

  • mission

  • metier

  • office

  • lifework

  • situation

  • engagement

  • assignment

  • line

  • gig

  • métier

  • place

  • job

  • craft

  • call

  • position

  • handicraft

  • task

  • function

  • duty

  • handcraft

  • post

  • load

  • workload

  • billet

  • berth

  • appointment


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • pursuit

  • avocation

  • hobby

  • pursuit

  • avocation

  • hobby

living

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verb

present participle of live

1

as in residing

to have a home

he lives next door to the hospital

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • residing

  • dwelling

  • staying

  • abiding

  • inhabiting

  • occupying

  • lodging

  • visiting

  • cohabiting

  • haunting

  • settling

  • renting

  • frequenting

  • populating

  • subletting

  • peopling

  • leasing

  • tenanting

  • hanging (at)

2

as in being

to have life

Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • being

  • existing

  • breathing

  • subsisting

  • surviving

  • ruling

  • flourishing

  • kicking

  • abiding

  • thriving

  • continuing

  • enduring

  • prospering

  • persisting

  • moving

  • lasting

  • leading

  • holding on

  • running on

  • keeping (on)

  • holding up


Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • dying

  • perishing

  • succumbing

  • vanishing

  • departing

  • disappearing

  • expiring

  • evaporating

  • stopping

  • ending

  • ceasing

  • quitting

  • dying (down)

  • passing away

  • subsiding

  • discontinuing

  • ebbing

  • moderating

  • waning

  • abating

  • desisting

  • letting up

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  • dying

  • perishing

  • succumbing

  • vanishing

  • departing

  • disappearing

  • expiring

  • evaporating

  • stopping

  • ending

  • ceasing

  • quitting

  • dying (down)

  • passing away

  • subsiding

  • discontinuing

  • ebbing

  • moderating

  • waning

  • abating

  • desisting

  • letting up

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lividness

living

livings

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adjective

having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.

in actual existence or use; extant: living languages.

burning or glowing, as a coal.

flowing freely, as water.

pertaining to, suitable for, or sufficient for existence or subsistence: living conditions; a living wage.

of or relating to living persons: within living memory.

lifelike; true to life, as a picture or narrative.

in its natural state and place; not uprooted, changed, etc.: living rock.

Informal. very; absolute (used as an intensifier): You scared the living daylights out of me!He’s making her life a living hell.

noun

the act or condition of a person or thing that lives: Living is very expensive these days.

the means of maintaining life; livelihood: to earn one’s living.

a particular manner, state, or status of life: luxurious living.

Usually the living .(used with a plural verb) living persons collectively: glad to be back among the living.

British. the benefice of a member of the clergy.

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Origin of living

First recordedbefore 900; Middle English adjective lyvyng(e); replacing earlier liviende, Old English lifgende (see live1, -ing2); Middle English noun living(e) (see -ing1)

OTHER WORDS FROM living

liv·ing·ly, adverbliv·ing·ness, nounnon·liv·ing, adjective, nounquasi-living, adjective

un·liv·ing, adjective

Words nearby living

live with, liveyer, Livia Drusilla, livid, lividity, living, living bandage, living bank, living daylights, living death, living fossil

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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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What are other ways to say living?

A person’s living is their means of maintaining life. How is this term different from livelihood and maintenance? Find out on Thesaurus.com.

Words related to living

breathing, contemporary, existence, income, job, livelihood, alert, animated, awake, brisk, continuing, current, developing, dynamic, live, operative, persisting, subsisting, ticking, warm

How to use living in a sentence

  • His prototype for Goat is Alto Pharmacy, a booming digital health unicorn today that the founders started in his living room.

  • It didn’t take long for the Wrecking Ball of Consequence to come swinging into the Houston Rockets’ living room.

  • This ensures your CTV ads are delivering an experience that is traditionally only found in the living room, watching network television.

  • As much as Netflix may be a tree in spirit, in reality, it’s not a living, interconnected organism.

  • We could raise the federal minimum wage, which hasn’t gone up in over 11 years, or incentivize businesses to pay their employees a living wage.

  • Patrick Klugman, the deputy mayor of Paris, said: “We are living our kind of 9/11,” he said.

  • Last week I turned 40, a bittersweet occasion because I crossed the line to living longer without my mother than with her.

  • But as an American creating a new brand here, and living the daily life of the souk, he seems to be in a league of his own.

  • A single father, he had been living abroad and returned when his mother was diagnosed with cancer.

  • For those living in poor communities in particular, interactions with police rarely come with good news and a smile.

  • To be so humbled in the knowledge of any living being, was the vultures of Prometheus to the proud heart of Ripperda.

  • The living (value £250) is in the gift of trustees, and is now held by the Rev. M. Parker, Vicar.

  • So far as their thought is still alive these men will come into the discussion of living questions now.

  • If they are still Moderns and alive, I defy you to bury them if you are discussing living questions in a full and honest way.

  • Either they are unavoidable if your living questions are fully discussed, or they are irrelevant and they do not matter.

British Dictionary definitions for living


adjective

  1. possessing life; not dead
  2. (as collective noun preceded by the)the living

having the characteristics of life (used esp to distinguish organisms from nonliving matter)

currently in use or validliving language

seeming to be reala living image

(of animals or plants) existing in the present age; extantCompare extinct (def. 1)

presented by actors before a live audienceliving theatre

(prenominal) (intensifier)the living daylights

noun

the condition of being alive

the manner in which one conducts one’s lifefast living

the means, esp the financial means, whereby one lives

Church of England another term for benefice

(modifier) of, involving, or characteristic of everyday lifeliving area

(modifier) of or involving those now alive (esp in the phrase living memory)

Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
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  • Defenition of the word 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»
    • the experience of living; the course of human events and activities; «he could no longer cope with the complexities of life»
    • having life; «a live canary»; «hit a live nerve»; «famous living painters»; «living tissue»; «living plants and animals»
    • (intensifier) «she is a living doll»; «scared the living daylights out of them»; «beat the living hell out of him»
    • (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; «carved into the living stone»;
    • full of life and interest; «made history a living subject»
    • still in active use; «a living language»
    • true to life; lifelike; «the living image of her mother»
    • pertaining to living persons; «within living memory»
    • dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination: «living quarters»; «tree-living animals»
    • people who are still living; «save your pity for the 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»
    • 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»
    • 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»
    • (informal) absolute; «she is a living doll»; «scared the living daylights out of them»; «beat the living hell out of him»
    • dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination; «living quarters»; «tree-living animals»
    • the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
    • people who are still living
    • the financial means whereby one lives
    • the condition of living or the state of being alive
    • (informal) absolute
    • (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
    • still in active use
    • still in existence
    • true to life; lifelike
    • pertaining to living persons

Synonyms for the word living

    • active
    • alive
    • aliveness
    • animation
    • bread and butter
    • breathing
    • existing
    • income
    • keep
    • life
    • live
    • livelihood
    • living wage
    • source of revenue
    • support
    • surviving
    • sustenance

Similar words in the living

    • absolute
    • alive
    • extant
    • live
    • living
    • livings
    • livingston
    • livingston’s
    • livingstone
    • livingstone’s
    • realistic

Hyponyms for the word living

    • amenities
    • comforts
    • conveniences
    • creature comforts
    • endurance
    • eternal life
    • life eternal
    • maintenance
    • meal ticket
    • skin
    • subsistence
    • survival

Hypernyms for the word living

    • being
    • beingness
    • existence
    • experience
    • people
    • resource

Antonyms for the word living

    • dead

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    • Synonym for the word tolerable
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    • Holonyms for the word livelong
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    • Proverbs and sayings for the word liveliness
    • Translation of the word in other languages livelongs

Предложения:
world living


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать грубую лексику.


На основании Вашего запроса эти примеры могут содержать разговорную лексику.

Предложения


You are the Word Living and Active inside of me.


Hence the word Living (living space) in the name of this car.



Отсюда и слово Living (жизненное пространство) в названии этого автомобиля.

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Vice-governor of St. Petersburg Mr. Mikhail Kucheryavy welcomed participants with words Living in our wonderful city I am happy to see so many young people.



С приветственным словом к участникам обратился вице-губернатор Санкт-Петербурга Михаил Кучерявый: «Живя в нашем замечательном городе, мне радостно видеть такое большое количество молодых людей.


Truly, those are words worth living for.



Это, однако, лишь слова, которые еще надо претворить в жизнь.


Well, my beloved, my word is the Living Word.


The written Word proclaiming the living Word.


Many have forgotten that My Word is a living Word, full of ongoing revelation and eternal insights.



Многие забыли, что Мое СловоЖивое Слово, полное постоянного откровения и беспрерывного понимания .


The words «living beings» did not leave him.


In other words, living some kind of emotion, they interpret it as hunger.



Иными словами, проживая какую-то эмоцию, они интерпретируют ее как голод.


Elijah Kamsky was finally able to create in the full sense of the word a living analogue of man.



Элайджа Камски наконец-то смог создать в полном смысле этого слова живой аналог человека.


Paintings… What a beautiful word — a living writing.



Живопись… Какое красивое словоживое письмо.


In other words, living with someone does not lead to agreement on standards of conduct or parenting practices.



Иными словами, совместная жизнь с кемто не приводит к соглашению по поводу стандартов поведения или методов. воспитания детей».


In a word, living in such a world is not interesting.



И жить в таком мире не интересно.


The word «living being» refers, then, to both plants and animals.



Поэтому словосочетание «живые существа» относится и к растениями, и к животным.


Edified (in truth): Teaching the word and living it.



Образовано от слов any (любой) и thing (вещь, предмет).


Wisdom, Wise Words and Living Mindfully.


In other words, living our lives.


‘And it appears she is staying true to her word, living within her limited means and working hard.



И кажется, она остаётся верной своим словам, так как проживает на ограниченные средства и упорно работает.


The words were living as I read.


In other words, living with purpose.

Ничего не найдено для этого значения.

Предложения, которые содержат Word Living

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