· the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

Synonym(s): life

Hypernym(s): experience

· people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"

Hypernym(s): people

Antonym(s): dead

· the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"

Synonym(s): animation, life, aliveness

Hypernym(s): being, beingness, existence, face_of_the_earth

· the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood"

Synonym(s): support, keep, livelihood, bread_and_butter, sustenance

Hypernym(s): resource

· be an inhabitant of or reside in; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods"

Synonym(s): populate, dwell, inhabit

Hypernym(s): be

· lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war"

· continue to live and avoid dying; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?" "One crash victim died, the other lived"

Synonym(s): survive, last, live_on, go, endure, hold_up, hold_out

· support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"

Synonym(s): exist, survive, subsist

· have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war"

Synonym(s): be

· have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces"

Synonym(s): know, experience

Hypernym(s): experience, see, go_through

· pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"

· pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"

· true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"

· (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"

· still in existence; "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"

Synonym(s): surviving

· still in active use; "a living language"

· (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone"