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Living

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Similar meaning 8

Absolute 84% connected

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promis…

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Absolute 84% connected

Loosed from any limitation or condition; uncontrolled; unrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promis…

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Extant 84% connected

Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

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Extant 84% connected

Standing out or above any surface; protruded.

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Live 84% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Live 84% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Realistic 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

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Realistic 84% connected

Of or pertaining to the realists; in the manner of the realists; characterized by realism rather than by imagination.

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Narrower term 6

Amenities 76% connected

of Amenity

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Endurance 76% connected

A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.

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Maintenance 76% connected

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

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Skin 76% connected

The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Subsistence 76% connected

Real being; existence.

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Survival 76% connected

A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.

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Broader term 5

Being 76% connected

of Be

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Existence 76% connected

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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Experience 76% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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People 76% connected

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation.

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Resource 76% connected

That to which one resorts orr on which one depends for supply or support; means of overcoming a difficulty; resort; expedient.

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Live 74% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Live 74% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Attribute 6

Alive 66% connected

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

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Alive 66% connected

Having life, in opposition to dead; living; being in a state in which the organs perform their functions; as, an animal or a plant which is alive.

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Dead 66% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Dead 66% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Live 66% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Live 66% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

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Synonym 7

Animation 92% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Keep 92% connected

To care; to desire.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Life 92% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Livelihood 92% connected

Subsistence or living, as dependent on some means of support; support of life; maintenance.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Support 92% connected

To bear by being under; to keep from falling; to uphold; to sustain, in a literal or physical sense; to prop up; to bear the weight of; as, a pillar…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Surviving 92% connected

of Survive

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Sustenance 92% connected

The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Antonym 2

Dead 94% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

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Open English WordNet records these words as lexical opposites.

Dead 94% connected

Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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