Dictionary Check: living

"living" is a valid word!

Scrabble 10 points
Words with Friends 14 points

Definition

adjective

pertaining to living persons

Example: "within living memory"
adjective

true to life; lifelike

Example: "the living image of her mother"
adjective

(informal) absolute

Example: "she is a living doll"
adjective

still in existence

Example: "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"
Synonyms:
adjective

still in active use

Example: "a living language"
adjective

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

Example: "carved into the living stone"

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