Definition of live

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• live is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
• live is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
• live is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9

Definition of live

• actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a live television program
  2. brought to you live from Lincoln Center
  3. live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience

  Synonyms

  1. unrecorded
• have life, be alive (verb)

  Examples

  1. My grandfather lived until the end of war

  Synonyms

  1. be
• capable of erupting (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a live volcano
  2. the volcano is very much alive

  Synonyms

  1. alive
• possessing life (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the happiest person alive
  2. the nerve is alive
  3. doctors are working hard to keep him alive
  4. burned alive
  5. a live canary

  Synonyms

  1. alive
• elastic; rebounds readily (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a lively tennis ball

  Synonyms

  1. bouncy
  2. lively
  3. resilient
  4. springy
• be an inhabitant of or reside in (verb)

  Examples

  1. People lived in Africa millions of years ago

  Synonyms

  1. dwell
  2. inhabit
  3. populate
• support oneself (verb)

  Examples

  1. Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?

  Synonyms

  1. exist
  2. subsist
  3. survive
• continue to live and avoid dying (verb)

  Examples

  1. The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
  2. One crash victim died, the other lived

  Synonyms

  1. endure
  2. go
  3. hold out
  4. hold up
  5. last
  6. live on
  7. survive
• charged or energized with electricity (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a live wire

  Synonyms

  1. hot
• have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations (verb)

  Examples

  1. I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
  2. The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
  3. I lived through two divorces

  Synonyms

  1. experience
  2. know
• abounding with life and energy (adjective)

  Examples

  1. the club members are a really live bunch
• charged with an explosive (adjective)

  Examples

  1. live ammunition
  2. a live bomb
• exerting force or containing energy (adjective)

  Examples

  1. live coals
  2. tossed a live cigarette out the window
  3. got a shock from a live wire
  4. live ore is unmined ore
  5. a live bomb
  6. a live ball is one in play
• highly reverberant (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a live concert hall
• in current use or ready for use (adjective)

  Examples

  1. live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread
• lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style (verb)

  Examples

  1. we had to live frugally after the war
• of current relevance (adjective)

  Examples

  1. a live issue
  2. still a live option
• pursue a positive and satisfying existence (verb)

  Examples

  1. You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live

See definition of live in Merriam Webster