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life - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: animation, spirit
Synonyms: élan*, activity, being, breath, dash, energy, enthusiasm, entity, esprit, essence, excitement, go*, growth, heart, impulse, liveliness, oomph*, soul, sparkle, verve, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zest*, zing*, brio, get-up-and-go, high spirits, lifeblood, sentience, viability, élan vital
Antonyms: inanimacy
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: existence, duration
Synonyms: being, career, continuance, course, cycle, endurance, epoch, era, expectancy, extent, generation, history, length, life span, lifetime, longevity, orbit, period, pilgrimage, record, season, span, survival, time, days
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: being
Synonyms: animal, animation, body, breath, consciousness, continuance, creature, endurance, entity, essence, existence, flesh, flesh and blood*, growth, human, human being, individual, living, man, mortal, organism, person, personage, presence, soul, subsistence, survival, vitality, woman, animateness, living being, living thing, metabolism, mortal being, substantiality, symbiosis, viability, vital spark, wildlife
Antonyms: death, inanimacy
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: history, biography
Synonyms: autobiography, career, confession, journal, life story, memoir, memorial, story, bio, curriculum vitae
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person's experiences
Synonyms: attainment, behavior, circumstances, conduct, development, enjoyment, enlightenment, growth, happiness, journey, knowledge, lifestyle, participation, personality, realization, suffering, world, hand one is dealt, human condition, trials and tribulations, vicissitudes, way of life
Related Words
Main Entry: life
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
above ground, aerobic, agamic, agrestian, alive, all alive and kicking, anaerobic, animated, archesporial, autacoidal, azzardly, bacillary, basal, bimanous, biodegradable, biomorphic, bionomic, biped, bircrural, blissom, breathing, celative, crepitous, cryptic, dacryopyostic, deglutitious, diallel, digenous, digoneutic, ditokous, diurnal, dizygotic, edentate, endothermic, epigamic, exogenous, gamic, haploid, hematic, hyperosmic, impar, in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living, indefatigable, lively, living, luxuriant, mammillated, marine, mercurial, metapneustic, microsmatic, motor, multilocular, muriform, myogenic, nizzertit, on this side of the grave, oviparous, ovoviviparous, palamate, paratonic, parthenic, parturient, pelagic, promethean, quick, rank, recuperated, refreshed, refreshing, ruttish, sedentary, sphygmic, spodogenous, stenobathic, tenacious of life, totipotent, untired, unwearied, urled, vegete, vital, vivacious, vivified, vivifying, yeld, zoetic
Concept Thesaurus
Synonyms:
-nouns
life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit., respiration, wind; breath of life, breath of one's nostrils; lifeblood; Archeus; existence [more]., vivification; oxygen; vital air, vital force; vitalization; revivification [more]; Prometheus; life to come (destiny) [more]., [Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology., nourishment, staff of life (food) [more].
-verbs
be alive; live, breathe, respire; subsist (exist) [more]; walk the earth; "strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]; be spared., see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life., give birth to (produce) [more]; bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate; reanimate (restore) [more]; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door; support life., have nine lives like a cat.
-adjectives
living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively (active) [more]; all alive and kicking; tenacious of life., vital, vitalic; vivifying, vivified; viable, zoetic; Promethean.
-adverbs
vivendi causa.
-phrases
atqui vivere militare est [Seneca]; non est vivre sed valere vita [Martial].
Antonyms: death
Main Entry: animation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: liveliness; activity
Synonyms: élan, action, ardor, bounce, buoyancy, dash, ebullience, elation, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, gaiety, life, oomph*, passion, pep*, sparkle, spirit, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap*, zeal, zest, zing*, zip*, brio, briskness, dynamism, high spirits, sprightliness, vibrancy
Antonyms: discouragement, dullness, inactivity
Main Entry: autobiography
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: written account of one's own life
Synonyms: biography, confession, diary, experience, journal, letter, life, life story, memoir, adventures, bio, letters, personal history, reminiscences, self-portrayal
Main Entry: biography
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: account of person's life
Synonyms: autobiography, diary, journal, life, life history, life story, memoir, picture, profile, résumé, saga, sketch, adventures, bio, biog, close-up, confessions, experiences, letters, personal account, personal anecdote, personal narrative, personal record, vita
Main Entry: bounce
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: spring
Synonyms: animation, bound, elasticity, energy, give, go, life, liveliness, pep, rebound, recoil, resilience, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zip, dynamism, springiness
Main Entry: élan
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vivacity
Synonyms: animation, ardor, dash, esprit, flair, impetus, life, oomph*, panache, spirit, style, verve, vigor, vim, zest, zing*, brio, impetuosity
Antonyms: dullness, lifelessness
Main Entry: enthusiasm
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: keen interest, excitement
Synonyms: élan, activity, ardor, avidity, conviction, craze, dash, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, emotion, energy, exhilaration, fad, fanaticism, feeling, fervor, fever, fire, flame, flare, frenzy, fury, gaiety, glow, go*, heat, hilarity, hobby, intensity, interest, joy, keenness, life, mania, mirth, nerve, oomph*, orgasm, passion, pep, rapture, red heat*, relish, snap, spirit, transport, vehemence, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zeal, zest, ardency, fieriness, impetuosity, joyfulness, zealousness
Antonyms: apathy, coolness, doubt, indifference, lethargy, pessimism, weariness, aloofness, coldness
Main Entry: human
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: person, Homo sapiens
Synonyms: being, body, character, child, creature, individual, life, mortal, personage, soul, biped, wight
Notes: a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion
Antonyms: abstract, immortal, inanimate, nonentity, plant
Main Entry: lifetime
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: span of animate being's existence
Synonyms: all one's born days, career, continuance, course, cradle to grave, days, endurance, existence, life, life span, natural life, period, time
Main Entry: memoir
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: record of experiences
Synonyms: account, anecdote, autobiography, biography, chronicle, diary, discourse, dissertation, essay, journal, life, life story, memory, monograph, narrative, note, recollection, register, reminiscence, thesis, treatise, annal, bio, confessions, tractate, transactions, vita
Main Entry: mettle
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: boldness, strength of character
Synonyms: animation, ardor, backbone, bravery, caliber, courage, daring, disposition, energy, fire, force, fortitude, gallantry, grit*, guts*, hardihood, heart*, life*, makeup, moxie, nature, nerve, pluck, quality, resolution, resolve, spirit, spunk, stamina, stamp*, starch, temper, temperament, valor, vigor, vitality, dauntlessness, gameness, indomitability, kidney
Antonyms: weakness
Main Entry: oomph
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: energy
Synonyms: animation, ardor, dash, drive, effectiveness, endurance, exertion, fire, force, fortitude, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, punch, spirit, stamina, steam, strength, vigor, vim, virility, vitality, zeal, zest, zing, zip, birr, forcefulness, get-up-and-go
Main Entry: pep
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: vim, vigor
Synonyms: animation, bang, energy, go, gusto, hardihood, life, liveliness, moxie*, potency, punch*, push, snap*, spirit, starch*, tuck*, verve, vitality, vivacity, zip*, birr, get-up-and-go, high spirits
Antonyms: apathy, lethargy, inactivity, lifelessness
Main Entry: person
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: human being
Synonyms: being, body, character, creature, customer, guy, human, identity, individual, individuality, joker*, life, man, mortal, party, personage, personality, self, somebody, soul, specimen, spirit, unit*, woman, gal, living soul
Antonyms: animal, plant
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