Synonyms for life
Another word for life is living, animation or aliveness. Below are 12 synonyms and 30 related words across 12 senses.
Also searched as: lifer.
1. noun: a characteristic state or mode of living
2. noun: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities
- living synonyms
3. noun: the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living
4. noun: the condition of living or the state of being alive
- living synonyms
- animation synonyms
- aliveness
5. noun: the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)
- life-time
- lifetime
- lifespan
6. noun: the period between birth and the present time
7. noun: the period from the present until death
8. noun: a living person
9. noun: animation and energy in action or expression
- spirit synonyms
- liveliness
- sprightliness
10. noun: living things collectively
11. noun: the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones
12. noun: an account of the series of events making up a person's life
- life story
- life history
- biography
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- being synonyms
- face of the earth
- existence synonyms
- ghetto
- beingness
- experience synonyms
- skin synonyms
- survival synonyms
- eternal life
- life eternal
- endurance
- period synonyms
- time period
- period of time
- afterlife
- hereafter synonyms
- years synonyms
- days
- someone synonyms
- person synonyms
- individual synonyms
- soul synonyms
- somebody synonyms
- mortal synonyms
- energy synonyms
- enthusiasm
- ginger synonyms
- pep
- delicacy synonyms
- vigor synonyms
Life in word games
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- 4
- Scrabble
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 8
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble LIFE
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Questions people ask
What is another word for life?
You can say living, animation, aliveness, life-time or lifetime instead of life. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a characteristic state or mode of living".
What is the opposite of life?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for life; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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