living

Adjective

• (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;
  • carved into the living stone
    

• still in active use
  • a living language
    

• 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
    

• (informal) absolute
  • she is a living doll
    
  • scared the living daylights out of them
    
  • beat the living hell out of him
    

• true to life; lifelike
  • the living image of her mother
    

• pertaining to living persons
  • within living memory
    

Noun

• the financial means whereby one lives
  • each child was expected to pay for their keep
    
  • he applied to the state for support
    
  • he could no longer earn his own livelihood
    

• 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
    

• people who are still living
  • save your pity for the living
    

• the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
  • he could no longer cope with the complexities of life
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  living(a) , surviving , support , keep , livelihood , bread and butter , sustenance , animation , life , aliveness