Dictionary Entry
exist
exist is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as intransitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 12 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
- 2intransitive verb
To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
- 3intransitive verb
To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
- 4verb
have an existence, be extant
"Is there a God?"
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- 5verb
support oneself
"he could barely exist on such a low wage"
"Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"
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