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Synonyms:
- aware, lively, awake, breathing, brisk, existent, vigorous, eager, vigilant, existing, vivid, alert, lively, active, active, acute, sound, breathing, animated, living, quick, subsisting, nimble, vivacious, ready, live, subsisting, busy, prompt, animated, being, sensible, existing, alert, wakeful, animate
Examples:
- - Alive applies to all degrees of life, from that which shows one to be barely existing or existent as a living thing, as when we say he is just alive, to that which implies the very utmost of vitality and power, as in the words " he is all alive," " thoroughly alive." So the word quick, which began by signifying " having life," is now mostly applied to energy of life as shown in swiftness of action. Breathing is capable of like contrast. We say of a dying man, he is still breathing; or we speak of a breathing statue, or " breathing and sounding, beauteous battle," Tennyson Princess can. v, l. 155, where it means having, or seeming to have, full and vigorous breath, abundant life. Compare ACTIVE; ALERT; NIMBLE.
Antonyms:
- desert, unproductive, expired, fallen, resting, unmindful, heedless, asleep, unheeding, nonoperating, nonliving, latent, incognizant, stagnating, insensitive, barren, ineffective, unaware, unconscious, mindless, fading, arrested, inanimate, inoperable, breathless, ghostly, inactive, idle, fallow, extinct, decommissioned, nonextant, reposing, vanished, dispirited, inoperative, dull, dying, dead, gone, quiescent, unusable, insensible, defunct, lifeless, stillborn, sleepy, terminated, moribund, inert, nonoperational, deceased, nonproductive, unwary, spiritless, deactivated, vegetating, oblivious, nonexistent, unwitting, useless, incautious, kaput, absent, lost, cold, dormant, lapsed, nonoperative, ineffectual, broken, departed, unguarded, nonfunctional, wiped out, unanimated, careless, perished, exterminated, inattentive, finished, unworkable, ghostlike, destroyed, nonfunctioning
