<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>having life; being alive; not dead: living persons</li><li>Synonyms: live, quick</li><li>Antonyms: dead</li><li>in actual existence or use; extant: living languages</li><li>active or thriving; vigorous; strong: a living faith</li><li>Synonyms: flourishing, lively</li><li>burning or glowing, as a coal</li><li>flowing freely, as water</li><li>pertaining to, suitable for, or sufficient for existence or subsistence: living conditions; a living wage</li><li>of or relating to living persons: within living memory</li><li>lifelike; true to life, as a picture or narrative</li><li>in its natural state and place; not uprooted, changed, etc.: living rock</li><li>Informal: very; absolute (used as an intensifier): You scared the living daylights out of me!</li><li>He's making her life a living hell.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>the act or condition of a person or thing that lives: Living is very expensive these days</li><li>the means of maintaining life; livelihood: to earn one's living</li><li>Synonyms: subsistence, sustenance</li><li>a particular manner, state, or status of life: luxurious living</li><li>Usually the living (used with a plural verb): living persons collectively: glad to be back among the living</li><li>British: the benefice of a member of the clergy</li></ul>