life - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

living things collectively

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• animate thing
• living thing

More specific

• wildlife

Noun

animation and energy in action or expression

Synonyms

• life
• liveliness
• spirit
• sprightliness

More generic

• animation
• brio
• invigoration
• spiritedness
• vivification

More specific

• airiness
• alacrity
• breeziness
• briskness
• buoyancy
• delicacy
• ebullience
• elan
• energy
• enthusiasm
• esprit
• exuberance
• ginger
• high-spiritedness
• irrepressibility
• jauntiness
• muscularity
• pep
• peppiness
• pertness
• smartness
• vigor
• vigour
• vim

Noun

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

Synonyms

• life
• living

More generic

• experience

Noun

an account of the series of events making up a person's life

Synonyms

• biography
• life
• life history
• life story

More generic

• account
• chronicle
• history
• story

More specific

• autobiography
• hagiography
• profile

Noun

a motive for living

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• motivation
• motive
• need

Noun

a living person

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• individual
• mortal
• person
• somebody
• someone
• soul

Noun

the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• organic phenomenon

More specific

• aerobiosis
• biology

Noun

the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• being
• beingness
• existence
• face of the earth

Noun

the condition of living or the state of being alive

Synonyms

• aliveness
• animation
• life
• living

More generic

• being
• beingness
• existence
• face of the earth

More specific

• endurance
• eternal life
• life eternal
• skin
• survival

Noun

a characteristic state or mode of living

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• being
• beingness
• existence
• face of the earth

More specific

• ghetto

Noun

the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

Synonyms

• life
• life-time
• lifespan
• lifetime

More generic

• period
• period of time
• time period

More specific

• afterlife
• hereafter

Related

• age
• birth
• death
• demise
• dying
• eld
• time of life

Noun

the period between birth and the present time

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• period
• period of time
• time period

Related

• past

Noun

the period from the present until death

Synonyms

• life

More generic

• period
• period of time
• time period

More specific

• days
• years

Noun

a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives

Synonyms

• life
• life sentence

More generic

• prison term
• sentence
• time

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