Definition of living

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • living is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
  • living is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
  • living is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 14

Definition of living


  • the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. life
  • still in existence (adjective)

    Examples

    1. 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

    Synonyms

    1. surviving
  • the financial means whereby one lives (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. bread and butter
    2. keep
    3. livelihood
    4. support
    5. sustenance
  • the condition of living or the state of being alive (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. aliveness
    2. animation
    3. life
  • (informal) absolute (adjective)

    Examples

    1. she is a living doll
    2. scared the living daylights out of them
    3. beat the living hell out of him
  • people who are still living (noun)

    Examples

    1. save your pity for the living
  • still in active use (adjective)

    Examples

    1. a living language
  • true to life; lifelike (adjective)

    Examples

    1. the living image of her mother
  • (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried (adjective)

    Examples

    1. carved into the living stone
  • pertaining to living persons ()

    Examples

    1. within living memory

See definition of living in Merriam Webster