living

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Synonyms: loving, giving, jiving, diving, laving, lining, liking, liming, hiving, riving, wiving

Antonyms: loving, giving, jiving, diving, laving, lining, liking, liming, hiving, riving, wiving

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Verb

1. present participle of live

Adjective

1. Having life; alive.
   • a living, breathing child
   • Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.
2. In use or existing.
   • Hunanese is a living language.
3. True to life.
   • This is the living image of Fidel Castro.
4. Of rock or stone, existing in its original state and place.
5. Continually updated; not static
   • HTML is a living standard.
6. Used as an intensifier.
   • He almost beat the living daylights out of me.

Noun

1. The state of being alive.
2. Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood
   • it's a living
   • What do you do for a living?
3. A style of life.
   • plain living
   • The National Brewing Company declared that the Chesapeake Bay region was the Land of Pleasant Living.
4. Those who are alive: living people.
   • in the land of the living
   • Glad to see you're still among the living! [good-humored greeting]
   • Some say that the spirits of the departed walk among the living, though most of us do not see them.
5. A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

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