| Verb | 1. | live - make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated" |
| 2. | live - lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style; "we had to live frugally after the war" | |
| 3. | live - continue to live; endure or last; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The racecar driver lived through several very serious accidents" | |
| 4. | live - 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" | |
| 5. | live - have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" Synonyms: be | |
| 6. | 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" Synonyms: experience, know | |
| 7. | live - pursue a positive and satisfying existence; "You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live" | |
| Adj. | 1. | live - actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing; "a live television program"; "brought to you live from Lincoln Center"; "live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience" Synonyms: unrecorded Antonyms: recorded - set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction; "recorded music" |
| 2. | live - showing characteristics of life; 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" Antonyms: 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"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" | |
| 3. | live - highly reverberant; "a live concert hall" | |
| 4. | live - charged with an explosive; "live ammunition"; "a live bomb" | |
| 5. | live - rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" | |
| 6. | live - abounding with life and energy; "the club members are a really live bunch" | |
| 7. | live - in current use or ready for use; "live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread" | |
| 8. | live - of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option" | |
| 9. | live - charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire" Synonyms: hot | |
| 10. | live - having life; "a live canary"; "hit a live nerve"; "famous living painters"; "living tissue"; | |
| 11. | live - capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive" Synonyms: alive | |
| Adv. | 1. | live - not recorded; "the opera was broadcast live" |
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