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

1. present participle. of Live
2. noun. The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.
3. noun. Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.
4. noun. Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate.
5. noun. Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.
6. noun. The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.
7. noun. the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

   "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

   Synonyms: life

8. noun. people who are still living

   "save your pity for the living"

9. noun. the financial means whereby one lives

   "each child was expected to pay for their keep"

   "he applied to the state for support"

   Synonyms: keep, livelihood, support, sustenance

10. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: aliveness, animation, life

11. adjective. (informal) absolute

    "she is a living doll"

    "scared the living daylights out of them"

12. adjective. (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried

    "carved into the living stone"

13. adjective. still in active use

    "a living language"

14. adjective. 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: surviving

15. adjective. true to life; lifelike

    "the living image of her mother"

16. adjective. pertaining to living persons

    "within living memory"

Synonyms

life, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance, aliveness, animation, surviving

Common word forms

liv, live, livings, livingly, livingless, livingness

Words from these letters

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