Synonyms of existed

existed

verb

past tense of exist

as in lived

to have life

strive to have a full, rich life rather than merely exist

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lived
• was
• ruled
• breathed
• subsisted
• persisted
• survived
• flourished
• lasted
• continued
• endured
• kicked
• kept (on)
• held on
• led
• prospered
• thrived
• abided
• held up
• moved
• ran on

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• died
• disappeared
• expired
• departed
• perished
• vanished
• passed away
• succumbed
• ceased
• evaporated
• ended
• stopped
• discontinued
• died (down)
• quit
• subsided
• waned
• abated
• moderated
• desisted
• ebbed
• let up

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of existed

At that time, the Fire were known only as Portland WNBA, a placeholder for the eventual team name that would honor the city’s first WNBA team of the same name that existed from 2000 to 2002. — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2026

Today, the situation that existed during the Renaissance has almost totally reversed itself. — Roger J. Kreuz, The Conversation, 21 Aug. 2026

He was never even allowed to be aware that such creatures existed in the before-times. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026

Ode itself barely existed in its current form a few months ago. — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026

That risk grows under the administration’s call to split the MMR vaccine, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, into three separate shots at three visits — a return to the pre-1971 era, before the combined vaccine existed. — Chuka Onuh, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2026

Some of the smallest, reddest galaxies in the image existed when the universe was only about 800 million years old, turning one seemingly empty patch of sky into a window through cosmic history. — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026

That’s because readers bestow a special kind of life upon people who have existed only in books. — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026

If a polygon existed with no periodic trajectory—that is, no way to return to its starting point—then the geometric object encoding all possible billiard paths would be forced to behave in two incompatible ways. — Sam MacDonald, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026