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existing
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | existent |
| Synonyms: | actual, alive, current, extant, real |
| Main Entry: | exist |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get along in life |
| Synonyms: | consist, dwell, eke out a living, endure, get by, go on, inhere, kick*, lie, live, make it, reside, stay alive, subsist, survive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | alive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being animately existent |
| Synonyms: | animate, around, awake, breathing, cognizant, conscious, dynamic, existing, extant, functioning, growing, knowing, live, living, mortal, operative, running, subsisting, viable, vital, working, zoetic |
| Antonyms: | dead, deceased, inanimate, lifeless |
| Main Entry: | de facto |
| Part of Speech: | adverb |
| Definition: | in reality |
| Synonyms: | actual, actually, existing, genuinely, in effect, in fact, real, really, tangible, truly, veritably |
| Main Entry: | extant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in existence |
| Synonyms: | actual, alive, around, being, contemporary, current, existent, existing, immediate, in current use, instant, living, not lost, present, present-day, real, remaining, subsisting, surviving, undestroyed |
| Antonyms: | dead, extinct, gone |
| Main Entry: | immediate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instantaneous; without delay |
| Synonyms: | actual, at once, at present time, at this moment, critical, current, existing, extant, first, hair-trigger, instant, live, next, now, on hand, paramount, present, pressing, prompt, up-to-date*, urgent |
| Antonyms: | eventually, later, never |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | real |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | genuine in existence |
| Synonyms: | absolute, actual, authentic, bodily, bona fide, certain, concrete, corporal, corporeal, de facto, embodied, essential, evident, existent, existing, factual, firm, heartfelt, honest, in the flesh, incarnate, indubitable, intrinsic, irrefutable, legitimate, live, material, original, palpable, perceptible, physical, positive, present, right, rightful, sensible, sincere, solid, sound, stable, substantial, substantive, tangible, true, unaffected, undeniable, undoubted, unfeigned, valid, veritable |
| Antonyms: | dishonest, fake, false, feigned, imaginary, invalid, untrue |
| Main Entry: | standing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permanent |
| Synonyms: | continuing, existing, fixed, perpetual, regular, repeated |
| Antonyms: | fleeting, impermanent, temporary |
| Main Entry: | de facto |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, adverb |
| Definition: | from the fact |
| Synonyms: | actual, existing, factual, from fact, in fact, in reality, real |
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