EXISTENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does existent mean?
• EXISTENT (adjective)
The adjective EXISTENT has 3 senses:
1. having existence or being or actuality
2. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
3. presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
Familiarity information: EXISTENT used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• EXISTENT (adjective)
Meaning:
Having existence or being or actuality
Synonyms:
existent; existing
Context examples:
an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient / much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran
Similar:
active; alive (in operation)
Also:
extant (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost)
Attribute:
being; beingness; existence (the state or fact of existing)
Antonym:
nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)
Meaning:
Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory
Synonyms:
real; existent
Context examples:
real objects / real people; not ghosts / a film based on real life / a real illness / real humility / Life is real! Life is earnest!
Similar:
historical (having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary)
actual; factual (existing in act or fact)
actual (taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated)
Also:
realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)
echt; genuine (not fake or counterfeit)
concrete (capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary)
sincere (open and genuine; not deceitful)
Attribute:
realism; reality; realness (the state of being actual or real)
Meaning:
Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
Synonyms:
actual; existent
Context examples:
the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different / actual and imagined conditions
Similar:
actualised; actualized (changed from potential to actual)
effective (existing in fact; not theoretical; real)
Attribute:
actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)
