Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb exist

2 senses of exist

Sense 1
exist, be -- (have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?")

Sense 2
exist, survive, live, subsist -- (support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day")

Antonyms of adj existing

3 senses of existing

Sense 1
existing -- (presently existing; "the existing system")

INDIRECT (VIA past, present) -> future -- (yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him")
INDIRECT (VIA present, future) -> past -- (earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year")

Sense 2
existent (vs. nonexistent), existing -- (having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran")


Sense 3
existing -- (existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream")

INDIRECT (VIA present) -> absent -- (not being in a specified place)

Similarity of adj existing

3 senses of existing

Sense 1
existing -- (presently existing; "the existing system")
       => present (prenominal) (vs. future) (vs. past) -- (temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations")

Sense 2
existent (vs. nonexistent), existing -- (having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran")
       => active, alive (predicate) -- (in operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition")
          Also See-> extant#1

Sense 3
existing -- (existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream")
       => present (vs. absent) -- (being or existing in a specified place; "the murderer is present in this room"; "present at the wedding"; "present at the creation")

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