Antonyms of noun living

1 of 4 senses of living

Sense 2
living -- (people who are still living; "save your pity for the living")
       Antonym of dead (Sense 1)
      => dead -- (people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun living

4 senses of living

Sense 1
life, living -- (the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life")
       => experience -- (the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly")

Sense 2
living -- (people who are still living; "save your pity for the living")
       => people -- ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience")

Sense 3
animation, life, living, aliveness -- (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")
       => being, beingness, existence -- (the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries")

Sense 4
support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance -- (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")
       => resource -- (available source of wealth; a new or reserve supply that can be drawn upon when needed)

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

7 senses of live

Sense 1
populate, dwell, live, inhabit -- (inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of; "People lived in Africa millions of years ago"; "The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted"; "this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean"; "deer are populating the woods")
       => be -- (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?")
          Phrasal Verb-> live in#1; live out#2

Sense 2
live -- (lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war")

Sense 3
survive, last, live, live on, go, endure, hold up, hold out -- (continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?")

Sense 4
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")

Sense 5
be, live -- (have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war")

Sense 6
know, experience, live -- (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces")
       => experience, see, go through -- (go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam")

Sense 7
live -- (pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live")

Antonyms of adj living

5 of 6 senses of living

Sense 2
living -- (true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother")

INDIRECT (VIA realistic) -> unrealistic -- (not realistic; "unrealistic expectations"; "prices at unrealistic high levels")

Sense 3
living -- ((informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him")

INDIRECT (VIA absolute) -> relative, comparative -- (estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete; "a relative stranger")

Sense 4
surviving, living -- (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")

INDIRECT (VIA extant) -> extinct, nonextant -- (no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs")

Sense 5
living -- (still in active use; "a living language")

INDIRECT (VIA extant) -> extinct, nonextant -- (no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs")

Sense 6
living (prenominal) -- ((used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";)

INDIRECT (VIA live) -> dead -- (not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead")

Similarity of adj living

6 senses of living

Sense 1
living -- (pertaining to living persons; "within living memory")

Sense 2
living -- (true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother")
       => realistic (vs. unrealistic) -- (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are; "a realistic description"; "a realistic view of the possibilities"; "a realistic appraisal of our chances"; "the actors tried to create a realistic portrayal of the Africans")

Sense 3
living -- ((informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him")
       => absolute (vs. relative) -- (perfect or complete or pure; "absolute loyalty"; "absolute silence"; "absolute truth"; "absolute alcohol")

Sense 4
surviving, living -- (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")
       => extant (vs. extinct) -- (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd)

Sense 5
living -- (still in active use; "a living language")
       => extant (vs. extinct) -- (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost; "extant manuscripts"; "specimens of graphic art found among extant barbaric folk"- Edward Clodd)

Sense 6
living (prenominal) -- ((used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone";)
       => live (vs. dead) -- (exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play")

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