live
live is a 4-letter English word with 36 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, adjective, noun, verb, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- intransitive verb. To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and plants that live to a great age are long in reaching maturity.
- intransitive verb. To pass one's time; to pass life or time in a certain manner, as to habits, conduct, or circumstances; as, to live in ease or affluence; to live happily or usefully.
- intransitive verb. To make one's abiding place or home; to abide; to dwell; to reside.
- intransitive verb. To be or continue in existence; to exist; to remain; to be permanent; to last; -- said of inanimate objects, ideas, etc.
- intransitive verb. To enjoy or make the most of life; to be in a state of happiness.
- intransitive verb. To feed; to subsist; to be nourished or supported; -- with on; as, horses live on grass and grain.
- intransitive verb. To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
- intransitive verb. To be maintained in life; to acquire a livelihood; to subsist; -- with on or by; as, to live on spoils.
- intransitive verb. To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm.
- transitive verb. To spend, as one's life; to pass; to maintain; to continue in, constantly or habitually; as, to live an idle or a useful life.
- transitive verb. To act habitually in conformity with; to practice.
- adjective. Having life; alive; living; not dead.
- adjective. Being in a state of ignition; burning; having active properties; as, a live coal; live embers.
- adjective. Full of earnestness; active; wide awake; glowing; as, a live man, or orator.
- adjective. Vivid; bright.
- adjective. Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of a lathe.
- noun. Life.
- verb. have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
"I know the feeling!"
"have you ever known hunger?"
- verb. have life, be alive
"Our great leader is no more"
"My grandfather lived until the end of war"
- verb. lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
"we had to live frugally after the war"
- verb. pursue a positive and satisfying existence
"You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
- verb. support oneself
"he could barely exist on such a low wage"
"Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"
- verb. continue to live through hardship or adversity
"We went without water and food for 3 days"
"These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"
- verb. inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
"People lived in Africa millions of years ago"
"The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"
- adjective. capable of erupting
"a live volcano"
"the volcano is very much alive"
- adjective. possessing life
"the happiest person alive"
"the nerve is alive"
- adjective. exerting force or containing energy
"live coals"
"tossed a live cigarette out the window"
- adjective. charged or energized with electricity
"a hot wire"
"a live wire"
- adjective. of current relevance
"a live issue"
"still a live option"
- adjective. in current use or ready for use
"live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
- adjective. abounding with life and energy
"the club members are a really live bunch"
- adjective. elastic; rebounds readily
"clean bouncy hair"
"a lively tennis ball"
- adjective. actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
"a live television program"
"brought to you live from Lincoln Center"
- adjective. charged with an explosive
"live ammunition"
"a live bomb"
- adjective. highly reverberant
"a live concert hall"
- adverb. not recorded
"the opera was broadcast live"
Synonyms
experience, know, be, exist, subsist, survive, endure, go, last, dwell, inhabit, populate, alive, hot, bouncy, lively, resilient, springy, unrecorded
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in live:
Common word forms
lived, liver, lives, lively, livest, living, liveable, liveness
Words from these letters
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