Live definition
Live is a verb meaning "be an inhabitant of or reside in." It has 19 meanings, as a verb, an adjective and an adverb, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- verb, adjective, adverb
- Syllables
- 1
- Letters
- 4
- How common
- Everyday word
Live as a verb
be an inhabitant of or reside in
"People lived in Africa millions of years ago"
Same sense: dwell, inhabit, populate
lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
"we had to live frugally after the war"
continue to live and avoid dying
"The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"
Same sense: go, last, live on, hold out, hold up, survive, endure
support oneself
"Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"
Same sense: exist, survive, subsist
have life, be alive
"My grandfather lived until the end of war"
Same sense: be
have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
"I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"
Same sense: know, experience
pursue a positive and satisfying existence
"You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live"
Live as an adjective
actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
"a live television program"
Same sense: unrecorded
exerting force or containing energy
"live coals"
possessing life
"a live canary"
Same sense: alive
highly reverberant
"a live concert hall"
charged with an explosive
"live ammunition"
elastic; rebounds readily
"a lively tennis ball"
Same sense: lively, resilient, bouncy, springy
abounding with life and energy
"the club members are a really live bunch"
in current use or ready for use
"live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread"
of current relevance
"a live issue"
charged or energized with electricity
"a live wire"
Same sense: hot
capable of erupting
"a live volcano"
Same sense: alive
Live as an adverb
not recorded
"the opera was broadcast live"
Synonyms and antonyms
- dwell
- inhabit
- populate
- go definition
- last definition
- live on
- hold out
- hold up
- survive
- endure
- exist
- subsist
- be
- know definition
- experience definition
- unrecorded
- alive
- lively
- resilient
- bouncy
- springy
- hot definition
Opposites: recorded, dead.
How to say live
Live has 1 syllable and rhymes with five. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with live
LIVE in word games
- Scrabble
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Anagrams
- 3
Is LIVE a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check LIVE in the word checker, or unscramble LIVE to see its 3 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.
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