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| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existent |
| Synonyms: | alive, animate, aware, breathing, conscious, living, vital |
| Antonyms: | dead, non-existent |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist |
| Synonyms: | abide, be, breathe, continue, endure, get along, get by, last, lead, maintain, move, pass, persist, prevail, remain, subsist, survive, be alive, draw breath, have life, make it, remain alive |
| Antonyms: | cease, depart, die |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | energetic, vigorous |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, brisk, burning, controversial, current, dynamic, earnest, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, hot*, lively, operative, pertinent, pressing, prevalent, running, topical, unsettled, vital, vivid, working, functioning |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, dispirited, inactive, lethargic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | inhabit a dwelling |
| Synonyms: | abide, bide, bunk*, crash*, dwell, hang one's hat, hang out*, locate, lodge, nest, occupy, perch, reside, roost, settle |
| Antonyms: | not use |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enjoy being alive |
| Synonyms: | delight, experience, flourish, love, luxuriate, prosper, relish, savor, thrive, be happy, make the most of, take pleasure |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make money to support living |
| Synonyms: | fare, feed, get along*, get by*, maintain, profit, subsist, support, acquire a livelihood, earn a living, earn money, make ends meet, make it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bide |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wait |
| Synonyms: | abide, attend, await, continue, dwell, hang around, linger, live, remain, reside, sit tight*, stay, tarry, hang in, hang out*, hold the phone, lie in wait, stick around, sweat it, watch for |
| Antonyms: | go, hurry, move |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | germinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grow |
| Synonyms: | bud, develop, generate, live, originate, shoot, sprout, swell, vegetate, pullulate |
| Antonyms: | halt, slow, stop, thwart |
| Main Entry: | hang about/hang around/hang out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | associate with; be residing in |
| Synonyms: | abide, affect, dally, frequent, haunt, linger, live, loiter, reside, resort, roam, swell, tarry, waste time, get along with, have relations with, spend time, stand around |
| Antonyms: | condemn |
| Main Entry: | inhabit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take up residence in |
| Synonyms: | abide, crash, dwell, indwell, live, locate, lodge, make one's home, occupy, park, people, perch, populate, possess, reside, roost, settle, squat, stay, tenant |
| Antonyms: | depart, leave, move, vacate |
| Main Entry: | living |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing, active |
| Synonyms: | alert, alive, animated, around, awake, breathing, brisk, contemporary, continuing, current, dynamic, extant, live, lively, ongoing, operative, strong, vigorous, vital, warm, developing, existent, in use, persisting, subsisting, ticking |
| Antonyms: | dead, inactive |
| Main Entry: | operative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, functioning; influential |
| Synonyms: | accessible, alive, crucial, current, dynamic, effective, efficient, functional, important, indicative, key, live, open, operational, practicable, relevant, running, serviceable, significant, standing, usable, workable, working, employable, in force, in operation |
| Antonyms: | inactive, ineffective, ineffectual, inoperative, useless, worthless, unfunctional, unworking |
| Main Entry: | organic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | basic, natural |
| Synonyms: | animate, basal, biological, constitutional, elemental, essential, fundamental, inherent, innate, integral, live, living, necessary, original, primary, prime, primitive, principal, structural, vital, amoebic, anatomical, biotic, cellular, nuclear, plasmic |
| Notes: | if a compound contains carbon, it is organic; no carbon indicates inorganic |
| Antonyms: | inorganic, man-made, unnatural |
| Main Entry: | real |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genuine in existence |
| Synonyms: | absolute, actual, authentic, bodily, bona fide, certain, concrete, corporal, corporeal, de facto, essential, evident, existing, factual, firm, heartfelt, honest, incarnate, indubitable, intrinsic, irrefutable, legitimate, live, material, original, palpable, perceptible, physical, positive, present, right, rightful, sensible, sincere, solid, sound, stable, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, unaffected, undeniable, undoubted, unfeigned, valid, veritable, embodied, existent, in the flesh |
| Antonyms: | dishonest, fake, false, feigned, imaginary, invalid, untrue |
| Main Entry: | remain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stay, wait |
| Synonyms: | abide, bide, bunk*, cling, continue, delay, dwell, endure, freeze, go on, halt, hang, hover, inhabit, last, linger, live, lodge, nest, outlast, outlive, pause, perch, persist, prevail, reside, rest, roost, sit tight*, sojourn, squat, stand, stop, survive, tarry, visit, wait, be left, bivouac, hang out, hold over, hold the fort, keep on, make camp, put on hold, remain standing, sit out, sit through, stay behind, stay in, stay over, stay put, stick around |
| Antonyms: | depart, forge, go, leave, move |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | robust |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | healthy, strong |
| Synonyms: | able-bodied, athletic, boisterous, brawny, built, concentrated, fit, flourishing, full-bodied, hale, hardy, hearty, hefty, husky, live, lusty, muscular, peppy, potent, powerful, prosperous, rough, rugged, sinewy, snappy, sound, stout, strapping, sturdy, thriving, tiger*, tough, vigorous, vital, well, wicked*, zippy*, booming, fit as fiddle, in fine fettle, in good health, in good shape, in the pink, powerhouse, prospering, roaring, robustious, robustuous, zappy |
| Antonyms: | flabby, infirm, soft, unhealthy, weak |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | running |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | continuous, flowing, operating |
| Synonyms: | active, alive, constant, dynamic, easy, effortless, fluent, incessant, live, moving, operative, perpetual, proceeding, producing, smooth, together, unbroken, unceasing, uninterrupted, working, cursive, executing, functioning, going, in action, in operation, in succession |
| Antonyms: | broken, discontinuous, intermittent, occasional |
| Main Entry: | subsist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | keep going, living |
| Synonyms: | be, breathe, continue, endure, exist, get along*, get by*, hang on*, hang tough*, last, live, manage, move, remain, survive, sustain, barely exist, eke out a living, eke out an existence, hang in, just make it, make ends meet, make it, remain alive, ride out*, scrape by, stay alive, stick it out, stick with it |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | survive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | continue to live |
| Synonyms: | bear, carry on, come through, endure, exist, get on, handle, hold out, keep, last, live, make the cut*, outlast, outlive, persevere, persist, pull through, recover, remain, revive, subsist, suffer, sustain, weather, withstand, be extant, be left, carry through, cut it, get through, go all the way, go the limit, keep afloat, live down, live on, live out, live through, make a comeback, outwear, pull out of it, remain alive, ride out*, see through, stand up, tough it out |
| Antonyms: | cease, die |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | working |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | active, occupied |
| Synonyms: | alive, busy, dynamic, effective, employed, engaged, hot*, live, moving, on fire, operative, practical, running, useful, viable, functioning, going, in a job, in force, in full swing, in gear, in process, laboring, on the job, on track |
| Antonyms: | idle, inoperative, passive, unoccupied, unworking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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