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living has 9 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 10 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is dead.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
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 experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
“he could no longer cope with the complexities of life”
the financial means whereby one lives
“each child was expected to pay for their keep”
5 of the 10 recorded senses carry no synonym, antonym or related term, so they are not shown above. Every sense, with its definition and examples, is on the full entry for living.
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for living come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.