1. (

• life ,
• living

) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" ;

2. (

• living

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

3. (

• animation ,
• life ,
• living ,
• aliveness

) 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" ;

4. (

• support ,
• keep ,
• livelihood ,
• living ,
• bread_and_butter ,
• sustenance

) 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" ;

1. (

• living

) pertaining to living persons; "within living memory" ;

2. (

• living

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

3. (

• living

) (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" ;

4. (

• surviving ,
• living

) 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" ;

5. (

• living ,

) still in active use; "a living language" ;

6. (

• living

) (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone" ;