LIVING
Dictionary entry overview: What does living mean?
• LIVING (noun)
The noun LIVING has 4 senses:
1. the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
2. people who are still living
3. the condition of living or the state of being alive
4. the financial means whereby one lives
Familiarity information: LIVING used as a noun is uncommon.
• LIVING (adjective)
The adjective LIVING has 7 senses:
1. pertaining to living persons
2. true to life; lifelike
3. dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination
4. (informal) absolute
5. still in existence
6. still in active use
7. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
Familiarity information: LIVING used as an adjective is common.
Dictionary entry details
• LIVING (noun)
Meaning:
The experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
living; life
Context example:
he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
Hypernyms ("living" is a kind of...):
experience (the content of direct observation or participation in an event)
Meaning:
People who are still living
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Context example:
save your pity for the living
Hypernyms ("living" is a kind of...):
people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)
Antonym:
dead (people who are no longer living)
Meaning:
The condition of living or the state of being alive
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
animation; aliveness; living; life
Context examples:
while there's life there's hope / life depends on many chemical and physical processes
Hypernyms ("living" is a kind of...):
being; beingness; existence (the state or fact of existing)
Attribute:
alive; live (possessing life)
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "living"):
eternal life; life eternal (life without beginning or end)
skin (a person's skin regarded as their life)
endurance; survival (a state of surviving; remaining alive)
Meaning:
The financial means whereby one lives
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Synonyms:
livelihood; keep; bread and butter; sustenance; living; support
Context examples:
each child was expected to pay for their keep / he applied to the state for support / he could no longer earn his own livelihood
Hypernyms ("living" is a kind of...):
resource (available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "living"):
amenities; comforts; conveniences; creature comforts (things that make you comfortable and at ease)
maintenance (means of maintenance of a family or group)
meal ticket (a source of income or livelihood)
subsistence (minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting)
• LIVING (adjective)
Meaning:
Pertaining to living persons
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
within living memory
Pertainym:
living (people who are still living)
Meaning:
True to life; lifelike
Context example:
the living image of her mother
Similar:
realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)
Meaning:
Dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination
Classified under:
Participial adjectives
Context examples:
living quarters / tree-living animals
Participle:
live (inhabit or live in)
Meaning:
(informal) absolute
Context examples:
she is a living doll / scared the living daylights out of them / beat the living hell out of him
Similar:
absolute (perfect or complete or pure)
Domain usage:
intensifier; intensive (a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies)
Meaning:
Still in existence
Synonyms:
surviving; living
Context examples:
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
Similar:
extant (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost)
Meaning:
Still in active use
Context example:
a living language
Similar:
extant (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost)
Meaning:
(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
Context example:
carved into the living stone
Similar:
live (exerting force or containing energy)
