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"
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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