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

1. intransitive verb. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual.
2. intransitive verb. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.
3. intransitive verb. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.
4. verb. have an existence, be extant

   "Is there a God?"

   Synonyms: be

5. verb. support oneself

   "he could barely exist on such a low wage"

   "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"

   Synonyms: live, subsist, survive

Synonyms

be, live, subsist, survive

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in exist:

exits, sixte

Common word forms

exists, existed, exister, existing, existless

Words from these letters

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