Dictionary Entry
living
living is a 6-letter English word with 16 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Live. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Live
- 2noun
The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
- 3noun
Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.
- 4noun
Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
- 5noun
Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
- 6noun
The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.
- 7noun
the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
"he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"
Synonyms
- 8noun
people who are still living
"save your pity for the living"
- 9noun
the financial means whereby one lives
"each child was expected to pay for their keep"
"he applied to the state for support"
Synonyms
- 10noun
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"
- 11adjective
(informal) absolute
"she is a living doll"
"scared the living daylights out of them"
- 12adjective
(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
"carved into the living stone"
- 13adjective
still in active use
"a living language"
- 14adjective
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"
Synonyms
- 15adjective
true to life; lifelike
"the living image of her mother"
- 16adjective
pertaining to living persons
"within living memory"
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