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

In the two years since Payne’s death, each surviving member has returned to making music. — Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 17 Oct. 2026

Many who hadn’t lost a house couldn’t imagine surviving a grueling six-year fight with an insurance company for money and the city for permits — let alone twice. — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2026

Biddy’s multitudes are reflected in her sole surviving photographic portrait (as seen on the cover of this book). — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Nearly three months after surviving its launch to space and a tumultuous trial at sea, the first Starship spacecraft to survive its ocean splashdown has returned to Starbase. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 14 Oct. 2026

The predators were locally extinct in California and the West, surviving mostly in rural Minnesota with another 40 animals in Michigan. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 14 Oct. 2026

His political nous has been shown by surviving intact through a number of storms. — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2026

The Chicago archdiocese recognized Rubey's work this year by dedicating in his honor a memorial to the lives lost to suicide and their surviving families. — Arkansas Online, 10 Oct. 2026

Tennessee death row inmate Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital and returned to prison after surviving a botched lethal injection that left her with serious medical complications, her attorneys announced. — Brittany Miller, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026