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say it: LIV-ing
living is an adjective and noun meaning "pertaining to living persons". It carries 10 recorded senses.
pertaining to living persons
“within living memory”
(informal) absolute
“she is a living doll”
“scared the living daylights out of them”
“beat the living hell out of him”
intensifier · colloquialism
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”
(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried
“carved into the living stone”
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”
“he applied to the state for support”
“he could no longer earn his own livelihood”
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 living 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.