live

Adjective

• capable of erupting
  • a live volcano
    
  • the volcano is very much alive
    

• charged or energized with electricity
  • a hot wire
    
  • a live wire
    

• of current relevance
  • a live issue
    
  • still a live option
    

• in current use or ready for use
  • live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread
    

• abounding with life and energy
  • the club members are a really live bunch
    

• elastic; rebounds readily
  • clean bouncy hair
    
  • a lively tennis ball
    
  • as resilient as seasoned hickory
    
  • springy turf
    

• charged with an explosive
  • live ammunition
    
  • a live bomb
    

• highly reverberant
  • a live concert hall
    

• possessing life
  • the happiest person alive
    
  • the nerve is alive
    
  • doctors are working hard to keep him alive
    
  • burned alive
    
  • a live canary
    

• exerting force or containing energy
  • live coals
    
  • tossed a live cigarette out the window
    
  • got a shock from a live wire
    
  • live ore is unmined ore
    
  • a live bomb
    
  • a live ball is one in play
    

• actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
  • a live television program
    
  • brought to you live from Lincoln Center
    
  • live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience
    

Adverb

• not recorded
  • the opera was broadcast live
    

Verb

• pursue a positive and satisfying existence
  • You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live
    

• have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
  • I know the feeling!
    
  • have you ever known hunger?
    
  • I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
    
  • The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
    
  • I lived through two divorces
    

• have life, be alive
  • Our great leader is no more
    
  • My grandfather lived until the end of war
    

• support oneself
  • he could barely exist on such a low wage
    
  • Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
    
  • Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day
    

• continue to live through hardship or adversity
  • We went without water and food for 3 days
    
  • These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
    
  • The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
    
  • how long can a person last without food and water?
    

• lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style
  • we had to live frugally after the war
    

• inhabit or live in; be an inhabitant of
  • People lived in Africa millions of years ago
    
  • The people inhabited the islands that are now deserted
    
  • this kind of fish dwells near the bottom of the ocean
    
  • deer are populating the woods
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  alive , hot , bouncy , lively , resilient , springy , live(a) , alive(p) , unrecorded , know , experience , be , exist , survive , subsist , last , live on , go , endure , hold up , hold out , populate , dwell , inhabit
• Antonyms: 
  dead , recorded