English to English
living
('l/I/v/I//N/
)
adjective (a)
- pertaining to living persons(adj.pert)Example:
Within living memory.
source: wordnet30 - Being alive; having life; as, a living creature.(adjective)source: webster1913
noun (n)
- the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities(noun.cognition)source: wordnet30
- people who are still living(noun.group)Example:
Save your pity for the living.
source: wordnet30 - the financial means whereby one lives(noun.possession)source: wordnet30
- The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.(noun)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- true to life; lifelike(adj.all)Example:
The living image of her mother.
source: wordnet30 - (informal) absolute(adj.all)Example:
She is a living doll.
Scared the living daylights out of them.
Beat the living hell out of him.
source: wordnet30 - still in existence(adj.all)Example:
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.
source: wordnet30 - still in active use(adj.all)Example:
A living language.
source: wordnet30 - (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried(adj.all)Example:
Carved into the living stone.
source: wordnet30