alive

alive

adjective

Definition of ALIVE

1

having or showing life <after crashing into the plate glass window the little bird was not only still alive, it seemed merely dazed>

Synonyms animate, breathing, live, living, quick

Related Words active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious; current, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, surviving; resurrected

Near Antonyms dying, fading, moribund; stillborn; reposing, resting; ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, zombielike; absent, extinct, fallen, finished, gone, lapsed, lost, nonexistent, perished, terminated, vanished, wiped out; barren, desert

Antonyms asleep, breathless, cold, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, expired, inanimate, lifeless, nonliving

2

marked by much life, movement, or activity <the mall was alive with holiday shoppers>

Synonyms aboil, abubble, abuzz, animated, astir, brisk, bustling, busy, buzzing, flourishing, happening, hopping, humming, kinetic, lively, rousing, stirring, thriving, vibrant

Related Words abounding, crowded, overflowing, populous, swarming, teeming, thronging

Antonyms asleep, dead, inactive, lifeless, sleepy

3

being in effective operation <kept the cause of peace alive despite severe setbacks in relations between the two nations>

Synonyms alive, functional, functioning, going, live, living, on, operating, operational, operative, running, working

Related Words effective, effectual; employable, operable, usable (also useable), viable, workable; performing, producing, productive, serving, useful, yielding; astir, bustling, busy, dynamic, flourishing, humming, roaring, thriving

Near Antonyms deactivated, decommissioned; ineffective, ineffectual, useless; inoperable, unusable, unworkable; arrested, asleep, dormant, fallow, idle, inert, latent, lifeless, nonproductive, quiescent, sleepy, stagnating, unproductive, vegetating

Antonyms broken, dead, inactive, inoperative, kaput (also kaputt), nonactivated, nonfunctional, nonfunctioning, nonoperating, nonoperational, nonoperative

4

having being at the present time <insists that her new boyfriend is the handsomest guy alive>

Synonyms alive, around, existent, existing, living

Related Words active, busy, flourishing, functioning, operating, working

Near Antonyms defunct, destroyed, exterminated, kaput (also kaputt); departed, gone, lost; nonexistent; idle, inactive, inert

Antonyms dead, extinct, nonextant

5

having specified facts or feelings actively impressed on the mind <alive to the need for major improvements in the school system>

Synonyms alive, apprehensive, aware, cognizant, mindful, sensible, sentient, ware, witting

Related Words alert, attentive, careful, cautious, heedful, observant, open-eyed, regardful, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake; hyperaware, hyperconscious

Near Antonyms careless, heedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, unguarded, unheeding, unwary

Antonyms insensible, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unwitting