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say it: uh-LAHYV
alive is an adjective meaning "possessing life". It is pronounced /əˈlaɪv/ — uh-LAHYV. It carries 7 recorded senses.
(often followed by `with') full of life and spirit
“she was wonderfully alive for her age”
“a face alive with mischief”
having life or vigor or spirit
“an animated and expressive face”
“animated conversation”
“became very animated when he heard the good news”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for alive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.