LIVED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

lived

verb

Definition of lived

past tense of live

as in resided

to have a home he lives next door to the hospital

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as in was

to have life Socrates was a philosopher who lived in ancient Greece

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Recent Examples of lived People who have lived even fragments of freedom together are harder to persuade that domination is eternal. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026 When public messaging and lived experience drift apart, narrative debt begins to accumulate. — Jonathan Brierre, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026 However, hesperornithiforms also lived near water and still died out. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026 The older of the two lived between 25,000 and 16,000 years ago, while the younger individual is 7,600 to 6,300 years old. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 10 Sep. 2026 He’s currently settled in Monolithos, a quiet seaside village in the east—but has historically lived all over Santorini, which has offered him great insight into the rhythm of the island. — Chadner Navarro, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2026 Mike McCarthy lived the Green Bay special teams experience as head coach from 2006 to ’18 before spending five seasons in the same role with the Dallas Cowboys. — Mike Sando, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2026 Some are shorter-lived, such as hair loss, nausea and fatigue, but others can last long after treatment is over and even for life. — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 3 Sep. 2026 Gloria lived true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humor. — Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for lived

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Kim, always accompanied by his interpreter David Lee, practically resided in the team’s indoor batting cages.

— Jesús Cano, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Both vulnerabilities targeting Chrome resided in V8, Google’s open source JavaScript engine.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of resided

Verb

Kiffin prioritized second-chance prospects before the portal even existed.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
In fact, the same scientists who conducted this research previously found evidence of a magnetic field that existed 2 million years into the formation of the solar system, baked into meteorites.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 4 Sep. 2026