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living - 20 thesaurus results
| 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: | living |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lifestyle; source of income |
| Synonyms: | bread and butter, existence, income, job, keep*, livelihood, maintenance, means, mode, occupation, salt*, subsistence, support, sustenance, way, work, alimentation, sustainment, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | alimony |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money paid in support of a former spouse |
| Synonyms: | keep, livelihood, living, maintenance, provision, subsistence, sustenance, upkeep, remittance |
| Main Entry: | extant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in existence |
| Synonyms: | actual, alive, around, being, contemporary, current, existing, immediate, instant, living, present, real, remaining, surviving, existent, in current use, not lost, present-day, subsisting, undestroyed |
| Antonyms: | dead, extinct, gone |
| Main Entry: | livelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occupation |
| Synonyms: | art, bread and butter, business, circumstances, craft, employment, game*, grind*, income, job, keep*, living, maintenance, means, profession, racket*, rat race*, resources, slot, subsistence, support, sustenance, thing*, trade, vocation, work, alimentation, nine-to-five, source of income, what one is into |
| Antonyms: | entertainment, fun |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | maintenance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | perpetuation, support; sustenance |
| Synonyms: | alimony, allowance, bacon*, bread, bread and butter, care, conservation, continuance, continuation, food, keep, keeping, livelihood, living, nurture, preservation, provision, resources, salt*, subsistence, supply, upkeep, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, carrying, prolongation, repairs, retainment, sustaining, sustainment, sustention |
| Antonyms: | desertion, ignorance, neglect, forsaking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | subsistence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | provisions for survival |
| Synonyms: | affluence, bread*, bread and butter, capital, circumstances, competence, earnings, existence, food, fortune, gratuity, income, independence, keep, legacy, livelihood, living, maintenance, means, money, nurture, pension, property, provision, ration, resources, riches, salary, salt*, substance, support, sustenance, upkeep, victuals, wages, wealth, wherewithal, aliment, alimentation, necessities |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | biological |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning life |
| Synonyms: | life, living, organic |
| Main Entry: | growing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | increasing |
| Synonyms: | animate, budding, crescent, enlarging, flourishing, living, maturing, spreading, swelling, thriving, viable, amplifying, augmenting, burgeoning, crescive, developing, dilating, expanding, fructifying, germinating, mushrooming, pullulating, sprouting, stretching, waxing |
| Antonyms: | lessening, shrinking, withering |
| Main Entry: | bread and butter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sustaining income |
| Synonyms: | bread, keep, livelihood, living, means, meat, staff of life, support, sustenance, daily bread |
| Main Entry: | alive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being animately existent |
| Synonyms: | animate, around, awake, breathing, cognizant, conscious, dynamic, existing, extant, growing, knowing, live, living, mortal, operative, running, viable, vital, working, functioning, subsisting, zoetic |
| Antonyms: | dead, deceased, inanimate, lifeless |
| Main Entry: | animate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alive |
| Synonyms: | breathing, live, living, mortal, moving, viable, vital, zoetic |
| Antonyms: | dead |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
| Antonyms: | deadness |
| Main Entry: | live |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existent |
| Synonyms: | alive, animate, aware, breathing, conscious, living, vital |
| Antonyms: | dead, non-existent |
| Main Entry: | actual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existing at the present time |
| Synonyms: | current, exact, extant, live, living, original, prevailing, existent |
| Antonyms: | hypothetical, imaginary, nominal, past, reputed, theoretical, unreal |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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