living

adj 1: pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"

2: true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"

3: dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination: "living

quarters"; "tree-living animals"

4: (intensifier) "she is a living doll"; "scared the living

daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him"

5: 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" [syn:

{surviving}]

6: still in active use; "a living language"

7: full of life and interest; "made history a living subject"

[syn: {living(a)}]

8: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place;

not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";

[syn: {living(a)}]

9: having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous

living painters"; "living tissue"; "living plants and

animals" [syn: {live}]

n 1: the experience of living; the course of human events and

activities; "he could no longer cope with the

complexities of life" [syn: {life}]

2: people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"

[ant: {dead}]

3: 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" [syn: {animation}, {life}, {aliveness}]

4: 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"

[syn: {support}, {keep}, {livelihood}, {bread and butter},

{sustenance}]