living

The experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities.

The financial means whereby one lives.

The condition of living or the state of being alive.

People who are still living.

“save your pity for the living”

Pertaining to living persons.

“within living memory”

Still in existence.

“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”

(informal) absolute.

“she is a living doll”

“scared the living daylights out of them”

Still in active use.

“a living language”

True to life; lifelike.

“the living image of her mother”

(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried.

“carved into the living stone”