Synonyms of surviving

surviving 1 of 2

adjective

as in extant

Related Words

• extant
• existing
• current
• prevailing
• going
• existent
• thriving
• active
• dynamic
• lively
• vibrant
• animated
• vigorous
• vital
• breathing
• live
• vivacious
• resurrected
• alive
• living
• animate
• quick

Dissimilar Words

• deceased
• dead
• dying
• cold
• expired
• departed
• defunct
• inanimate
• lifeless
• fading
• breathless
• nonliving
• moribund
• asleep
• stillborn
• resting
• gone
• absent
• extinct
• ghostly
• terminated
• vanished
• finished
• nonexistent
• lost
• wiped out
• fallen
• ghostlike
• lapsed
• barren
• desert
• reposing
• perished
• zombielike
• ghosty

surviving

2 of 2

verb

present participle of survive

1

as in living

to come safely through

the cat miraculously survived a two-story fall

Synonyms & Similar Words

• living
• weathering
• enduring
• being
• riding (out)
• making it (through)
• withstanding
• continuing
• outliving
• thriving
• existing
• outlasting
• wearing out
• subsisting
• prospering
• standing
• persisting
• breathing
• lasting
• holding out
• flourishing
• leading
• sticking out
• abiding
• hanging on
• holding on
• pulling through
• holding up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dying
• passing (on)
• departing
• perishing
• succumbing
• expiring
• passing away
• vanishing
• disappearing
• evaporating
• croaking
• fading
• ending
• deceasing
• stopping
• ceasing

2

as in lasting

to continue to operate or to meet one's needs

some old-world customs still survive in modern-day America

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lasting
• prevailing
• remaining
• continuing
• persisting
• going
• holding out
• managing
• enduring
• coping
• keeping up
• holding up
• persevering
• lingering
• stretching
• faring
• carrying on
• getting along
• hanging in
• getting on
• making out
• abiding
• drawing out
• hanging on
• holding on
• getting by
• running on
• bearing up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• failing
• dying
• going out
• running out
• stopping
• giving out
• breaking
• collapsing
• crashing
• expiring
• breaking down
• stalling
• cutting out
• fizzling
• petering (out)
• waning
• running down
• conking (out)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of surviving

Verb

Christa Pike was unconscious, intubated and on a ventilator in a Nashville hospital as of Thursday evening, a day after surviving a botched execution attempt, her lawyers said in a court filing. — Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026

On Thursday, the US Space Force said that the final two surviving Defense Support Program satellites (presumably DSP-20 and DSP-22) participated in an on-orbit maneuvering exercise in early September. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 2 Oct. 2026

Gretchen ends up surviving the movie, because Donnie goes back in time and saves her, but her future is left uncertain. — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2026

In their eloquence and their ways of avoiding easy comfort, the poems also deal with the hushed experience of surviving someone else’s death and fulfill the urge to say something not only real and true but formal and exact, as though for a ceremony. — Colm Tóibín, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2026

This, combined with the glacial pace of emissions reductions, gives the sense that key players are more interested in surviving what’s coming, rather than stopping it. — Stephanie Walton, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2026

The space includes a central entry room and two banquet rooms with surviving mosaic floors and raised platforms that once held dining couches. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026

In the near-decade the restaurant was open for business, which included surviving the COVID-19 pandemic, its casual atmosphere, serious cocktails and relatively late hours developed a loyal following in Midtown. — Henri Hollis, AJC.com, 26 Sep. 2026

Beyond the film, which ended the moment they were rescued, there was another kind of survival, which was returning home and surviving, on the part of the survivors, and surviving the loss of a loved one. — Roberto Prieto, Variety, 25 Sep. 2026