- having life; being alive; not dead: living persons.
- in actual existence or use; extant: living languages.
- active or thriving; vigorous; strong: a living faith.
- burning or glowing, as a coal.
- flowing freely, as water.
- pertaining to, suitable for, or sufficient for existence or subsistence: living conditions; a living wage.
- of or relating to living persons: within living memory.
- lifelike; true to life, as a picture or narrative.
- in its natural state and place; not uprooted, changed, etc.: living rock.
- very; absolute (used as an intensifier): You scared the living daylights out of me!He's making her life a living hell.
- the act or condition of a person or thing that lives: Living is very expensive these days.
- the means of maintaining life; livelihood: to earn one's living.
- a particular manner, state, or status of life: luxurious living.
- living persons collectively: glad to be back among the living.
- the benefice of a member of the clergy.
- possessing life; not dead
- (as collective noun preceded by the)
- having the characteristics of life (used esp to distinguish organisms from nonliving matter)
- currently in use or valid
- seeming to be real
- (of animals or plants) existing in the present age; extant
- geology another word for live 2 (def. 15)
- presented by actors before a live audience
- (intensifier)
- the condition of being alive
- the manner in which one conducts one's life
- the means, esp the financial means, whereby one lives
- Church of England another term for benefice
- of, involving, or characteristic of everyday life
- of or involving those now alive (esp in the phrase living memory)
