Adjective Definition

living

1.Definition: (informal) absolute

"She is a living doll", "Scared the living daylights out of them", "Beat the living hell out of him"


2.Definition: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried

"Carved into the living stone"


3.Definition: pertaining to living persons

"Within living memory"


4.Definition: still in active use

"A living language"


5.Definition: 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"

Related Adjective(s):surviving


6.Definition: true to life; lifelike

"The living image of her mother"




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