Living - Definition

adj 1: pertaining to living persons; "within living memory"
2: true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother"
3: (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the
living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of
him"
4: 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" [syn:
surviving, living]
5: still in active use; "a living language"
6: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place;
not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";
n 1: the experience of being alive; the course of human events
and activities; "he could no longer cope with the
complexities of life" [syn: life, living]
2: people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
[ant: dead]
3: 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" [syn: animation, life, living,
aliveness]
4: 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" [syn:
support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and
butter, sustenance]