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alive

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of alive

1 having or showing life

  • we were relieved to find that the little bird was still alive after crashing into the plate glass window
Synonyms of alive

animate, breathing, live, living, quick
Words Related to alive

active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious

current, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, surviving

resurrected
Near Antonyms of alive

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 of alive

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 of alive

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

abounding, crowded, overflowing, populous, swarming, teeming, thronging
Antonyms of alive

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 of alive

active, functional, functioning, going, live, living, on, operating, operational, operative, running, working
Words Related to alive

effective, effectual

employable, operable, usable (also useable), viable, workable

performing, producing, productive, serving, useful, yielding

astir, bustling, busy, dynamic, flourishing, humming, roaring, thriving
Phrases Synonymous with alive

in commission (or into commision), in force, in gear, on line
Near Antonyms of alive

deactivated, decommissioned

ineffective, ineffectual, useless

inoperable, unusable, unworkable

arrested, asleep, dormant, fallow, idle, inert, latent, lifeless, nonproductive, quiescent, sleepy, stagnating, unproductive, vegetating
Antonyms of alive

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

4 having being at the present time

  • describes her boyfriend as the sweetest guy alive
Synonyms of alive

around, existent, existing, extant, living
Words Related to alive

active, busy, flourishing, functioning, operating, working
Near Antonyms of alive

defunct, destroyed, exterminated, kaput (also kaputt)

departed, gone, lost

nonexistent

idle, inactive, inert
Antonyms of alive

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 of alive

apprehensive, aware, cognizant, conscious, mindful, sensible, sentient, ware, witting
Words Related to alive

alert, attentive, careful, cautious, heedful, observant, open-eyed, regardful, safe, vigilant, wary, watchful, wide-awake

hyperaware, hyperconscious
Near Antonyms of alive

careless, heedless, inattentive, incautious, mindless, unguarded, unheeding, unwary
Antonyms of alive

insensible, oblivious, unaware, unconscious, unmindful, unwitting

Synonym Discussion of alive

aware, cognizant, conscious, sensible, alive, awake mean having knowledge of something. aware implies vigilance in observing or alertness in drawing inferences from what one experiences.
    • aware of changes in climate
cognizant implies having special or certain knowledge as from firsthand sources.
    • not fully cognizant of the facts
conscious implies that one is focusing one's attention on something or is even preoccupied by it.
    • conscious that my heart was pounding
sensible implies direct or intuitive perceiving especially of intangibles or of emotional states or qualities.
    • sensible of a teacher's influence
alive adds to sensible the implication of acute sensitivity to something.
    • alive to the thrill of danger
awake implies that one has become alive to something and is on the alert.
    • a country always awake to the threat of invasion

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