Life

Noun

 * 1) The state that follows birth, and precedes death; the state of being alive and living.
 * He gave up on life.
 * Having experienced both, the vampire decided that he preferred (un)death to life.
 * 1) The period during which one (a person, an animal, a plant, a star) is alive.
 * 2) * 1916, Ezra Meeker, The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker
 * 3) The span of time during which an object operates.
 * This light bulb is designed to have a life of 2,000 hours.
 * 1) The period of time during which an object is recognizable.
 * The life of this milk carton may be thousands of years in this landfill.
 * 1)  A status given to any entity including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc. — and sometimes viruses — having the properties of replication and metabolism.
 * 2)  The essence of the manifestation and the foundation of the being.
 * 3) * 1918,, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter VI
 * "...I realize as never before how cheap and valueless a thing is life. Life seems a joke, a cruel, grim joke. You are a laughable incident or a terrifying one as you happen to be less powerful or more powerful than some other form of life which crosses your path; but as a rule you are of no moment whatsoever to anything but yourself. You are a comic little figure, hopping from the cradle to the grave. Yes, that is our trouble--we take ourselves too seriously; but Caprona should be a sure cure for that." She paused and laughed.
 * 1)  the subjective and inner manifestation of the individual.
 * 2) The world in general; existence.
 * Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.
 * 1) A worthwhile existence.
 * He gets up early in the morning, works all day long — even on weekends — and hardly sees his family. That's no life!
 * 1) of a person The most worthwhile component or participant
 * 2) * 1970 Mathuram Bhoothalingam, The finger on the lute: the story of Mahakavi Subramania Bharati, National Council of Educational Research and Training, p87
 * "Don't I know that it is you who is the life of this house. Two delightful children!
 * 1) * 1998 Monica F. Cohen, Professional domesticity in the Victorian novel: women, work and home, Cambridge University Press, p32
 * And he is the life of the party at the Musgroves for precisely this reason: the navy has made him into a great storyteller.
 * 1) A biography.
 * His life of the founder is finished, except for the title.
 * 1) Something which is inherently part of a person's existence, such as job, family, a loved one, etc.
 * She's my love, my life.
 * 1)  A life sentence; a term of imprisonment of a convict until his or her death.
 * 2)  One of the player's chances to play, lost when a mistake is made.
 * Scoring 1000 points is rewarded with an extra life.

Quotations

 * 1994: Violet Quill, Robert Ferro:
 * Most things in life, including life itself, seemed to have articulated sections, discrete and separate and straightforward.

Synonyms

 * existence, experience
 * time

Antonyms

 * death
 * coma
 * void

Derived terms

 * artificial life
 * biological life
 * dog’s life
 * get a life
 * get life
 * give life
 * have the time of one's life
 * high life


 * lifeboat
 * life coach
 * life-buoy
 * life-force
 * life form
 * life's a bitch
 * life is like a box of chocolates
 * life's not all skittles and beer
 * life jacket
 * lifeblood
 * lifelike


 * lifeline
 * life line
 * life of the party
 * life plan
 * life-saver
 * lifestyle
 * lifetime
 * life vest


 * lifework
 * love life
 * meaning of life
 * quality of life
 * real life
 * set for life
 * shelf life
 * social life

Related terms

 * live


 * alive
 * lively

Adjectives for Life
abhorred; abject; abnormal; abstract; aboriginal; abundant; academic; active; action-craving; affluent; agonized; agreeable; agricultural;   all-embracing;    altruistic; amazing; ambrosial; angelic; antecedent; antenatal; artificial; ascetic; astonished; austere; bad; beneficent; benevolent; blameless; blithe; blooming; boulevard; bountiful; bright-eyed; broad; broken; brute; bubbling; buoyant; busy; bygone; birdcage; cankerous; carefree; careful; changing; charmed; civic; civilized; cloistral; cold-blooded; collective; college; colorful; commercial; commonplace; communal; concentrated; consistent; constant; contemplative; contemporary; contemptuous; convenient; convulsive; cordial; corporate; cosmic; country; crescent; cruel; crystal; cultivated; cultured; darkened;  darkling;  darting; deadening; decorous; deep-bosomed; defaced;  delightful;   democratic;   demonstrable; deplorable; desultory; devouring; diffusive; diminished; diplomatic; disastrous; discontented; disfigured; dishonored; disjointed; disposed; dissipated; dissolute; distasteful; distracted; dividing; double; domestic; doubtful; dull; dusky; dutiful; easygoing; eccentric; economic; effete; effective; effeminate; elemental; emancipated; embittered; emotional; enlarging; ennobling; ephemeral; equal; erotic; equivocal; essential; eternal; eventful; existing; exotic; expanding; external; extinguished; exuberant; exultant;  factitious;   familiar;   farcical; farmyard; fascinating; fashionable; fast-fleeing; fast-withering; fettered; feudal; feverish; fictionized;  flabby;  flickering; floating; flourishing; foreign; fragrant; free; friendless; frisking; frivolous; frugal; fruitful; fugitive; fullest; genuine; gushing; grimy; groovelike; gypsy; half-revealed; hapless; hard-working; harmless; healthful; helpful; hideous; hoary; high-pressure; homely; honest; human; humdrum; hygienic; ideal; idyllic; imagined; imaginative; immortal; impatient; impeccable; imperfeet; imperiled; imperishable; impish; Incarnate; increasing; independent; individual; indulgent; industrious; infantile; informal; inglorious; inherent; inner; innermost; insect; unsociable; integrated; intellectual; intense; interior; intimate; irre¬sponsible; irregular; joyless; kindly; knowable; laborious; large; licentious; lifeless; liquid; listless; literary; livable; loathed; long; low; lush; lusterless; luxurious; magnanimous; many-sided; married; material; maximum; meditative; melancholy; mental; meteoric; middle-married; milder; millennial; mingled; mirthful; miserable; modest; monastic; monotonous; moral; mortal; moving; multitudinous (pi); mythological; nam¬by-pamby; nervous; nobler; nomadic; objectless; obscure; old-maidish; ordinary; orgiastic; outer; out-of-town; outside; paltry; palpitating; pampered; parasitic; parental;  peaceful;   perilous;   permeating; perverted; phenomenal; pioneer; plausible; pleasant; plenteous; practical; precarious; prevailing; priceless; private; progressive; prosperous; prosaic; provincial; prudent; pseudo-social; psychical; public; pulsating; pulseless; pure; quickening; radical; rampant; realistic; redundant; regular; rejuvenated; reproductive; renovated; restive; restless; retired; revolutionary; rhythmical; rollicking; rough; roving; ruddy; rural; sacred; sacrificial; scandalous; scanty; secluded; secret; secular; sedentary; sensuous; sequestered; serene; sheltered; shifting; shudderable; simpering; simple; singing; single; skilful; sky-wedded; sleeping; slow-moving; sluggish; smiling; smug; snug; sobered; social; solitary; sophisticated;  spiritual;   spontaneous;   sportive; starved; steady; sterile; stimulating; straggling; strenuous; studious; subsequent; sunless;  sunlit;   supersensual;   sustaining; sweet; swinish; tangled; temperate; tempestuous; tender;  terrestrial;  thin-spun; thoughtless; thwarted; toilsome; torpid; tortured; tragic; tramping; tree; trite; troubled; tumultuous; turbulent; tyrant; unambitious; unassuming; unbearable; unceasing; unchanging; unconventional; uncircumscribed; undeniable; unendurable; undistinguished; uneventful; unjaded; unprofitable; unprosperous; unrealized; unresisting; unsatisfactory; unseen; unseparable; unsettled; unsightly; unsophisticated; unstable; upright; useful; urban; various (pi); vagrant; vicious; veritable; vigorous; Vile; virtuous;  wagering;  wandering; warm; wasted; wayside; wayward; well-lost; wholesome; wild; winged; wistful; womanly; wonted;  workless;  worldly; worthless; worthy; wretched; youthful; action-filled; adequate; adventurous.

Verbs for Life
abbreviate—; alter—; bare—of; beautify —; blight—; blot out—; burst into—; carve —; challenge—; cling to—; commence—; comprehend—; conceive—; consecrate—to; cope with—; dedicate—to; degrade—; delve into—; depict—; deplete—; detach from—; devote—to; devour—; disorganize—; dissipate—; diversify—; drag out—; drain of—; embitter—; endanger—; endow with —; enhance—; ennoble—; equip for—; erase—; exemplify—; face—; flash into—; flinch from—;   foreshorten—;   foster—; fritter—away; galvanize into—; gamble— on; immerse in—; insulate against—; inter¬cede for—; interpret—; intrude upon—; invade—; isolate—; jeopardize—; maim—; maintain—; manifest—; mar—; mend—; mock—; mold—; muddle through—; nourish—; oppress by—; pay with—; permeate —; plunge into—; portray—; probe—; prolong—; race through—; radiate—; rebuild —; reconstruct—; rekindle—; resuscitate —; retire from—; revel in—; routinize— shock into—; skim through—; snuff out—' squander—; stake—on; submerge—; sum —; sustain—; taste—; terminate—; thirst for—; tranquilize—; trifle away—; uplift —; vitiate—; warp—; weigh—; —blossoms; —buzzes by; —disintegrates; —ebbs; —evolves; —flowers; —flows; —hangs; — —s intertwine; —persists; —pulsates; — quickens; —rallies; —surges; —trudges on; —unfolds; —withers.

Thesaurus
Adamite, Clio, Muse of history, activator, activity, adventures, affairs, age, alacrity, an existence, animal spirits, animation, animator, annals, anxiety, anxiousness, appetite, ardor, arouser, autobiography, avidity, avidness, being, biographical sketch, biography, body, bounce, breathless impatience, breeziness, brio, briskness, bubbliness, capersomeness, case history, cat, chap, character, cheerful readiness, chronicle, chronicles, chronology, circumstances, coltishness, compulsion, concerns, condition of things, conditions, confessions, creature, critter, curriculum vitae, customer, dash, dazzle, dealings, diary, doings, duck, duration, eagerness, earthling, ebullience, effervescence, elan, elan vital, elasticity, energizer, energy, ens, entelechy, enthusiasm, entity, esprit, esse, essence, existence, experiences, exuberance, fellow, fixation, flair, flavor, fortunes, forwardness, freshness, friskiness, frolicsomeness, gaiety, gamesomeness, gayness, generation, get-up-and-go, glow, goings-on, groundling, gust, gusto, guy, hagiography, hagiology, hand, head, heartiness, historiography, history, homo, human, human being, human dynamo, impatience, impetuosity, impetus, individual, joie de vivre, joker, journal, keen desire, keenness, legend, life and letters, life story, lifeblood, lifetime, liveliness, living, living soul, lustiness, man, march of events, martyrology, materiality, matters, memoir, memoirs, memorabilia, memorial, memorials, mettle, monad, mortal, motivating force, motive power, moving spirit, moxie, necrology, nose, obituary, object, obsession, occurrence, one, oomph, organism, party, passion, pep, peppiness, period of existence, perkiness, person, persona, personage, personality, pertness, photobiography, piss and vinegar, pizzazz, playfulness, preoccupation, presence, proceedings, profile, promptness, pungency, quickness, readiness, record, relations, resilience, restorative, resume, robustness, rollicksomeness, rompishness, run of things, sentience, single, skittishness, somebody, someone, something, soul, spark of life, spark plug, sparkle, spirit, spiritedness, spirits, sportiveness, sprightliness, spring, state of affairs, stimulant, stimulator, stimulus, story, subsistence, substantiality, survival, sustenance, tellurian, terran, the times, the world, theory of history, thing, time, tonic, unit, verve, viability, vigor, vim, vital spark, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, warmth, way of life, what happens, worldling, zest, zestfulness, zing, zip

Etymology
lif:, from, from. Cognate with Dutch lijf:, German Leib:, Swedish liv:.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܝܐ (ħayē)
 * Hebrew: חיא (ħayē)
 * Armenian: կյանք
 * Azeri: həyat
 * Basque: bizi
 * Belarusian: жыццё, жыцьцё
 * Bosnian:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Campidanese Sardinian: vida
 * Catalan: vida
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: სიცოცხლე, ცხოვრება
 * German:
 * Greek: ζωή
 * Hawaiian: ola
 * Hebrew: חיים
 * Hindi: ज़िंदगी, जीवन, हयात, जी, प्राण, जन्मा
 * Hopi: qatsi
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ជីវិត
 * Khmer: ជីវិត


 * Korean: (生命),
 * Kurdish: jiyan ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: dzīve
 * Lithuanian:
 * Logudorese Sardinian: bida
 * Lower Sorbian: žywjenje
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: ജീവിതം (jeevitham)
 * Manx: bea
 * Mongolian: амь
 * Nahuatl: yōliztli, yolistli
 * Norwegian:
 * Old English:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit: जीवनं
 * Santali:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: జీవితము (jeevithamu)
 * Thai: ชีวิต
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: життя
 * Urdu: زندگی, جیون, حیات
 * Uyghur: ھايات
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: libben
 * Yiddish: לעבן
 * West Frisian: libben
 * Yiddish: לעבן


 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܚܝܐ (ħayē)
 * Hebrew: חיא (ħayē)
 * Armenian: կյանք (kyank‘)
 * Catalan: vida
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ; (when its safety is questioned)
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ζωή (zoí)
 * Hebrew: חיים (ħayim)


 * Hopi: qatsi
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: vita
 * Macedonian:, живеење
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Armenian: կյանք (kyank‘)
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: vida
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 存在
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: elamine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חיים (ħayim)
 * Hindi: जी, जान, प्राण
 * Hopi: qatsi
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 존재 (存在), 생활 (生活)
 * Latin: vita
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: ജീവന്‍
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Sumerian:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: sinh hoạt, sanh hoạt


 * Armenian: կյանք (kyank‘)
 * Bosnian:
 * Catalan: vida
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: חיים (ħayim)
 * Hindi: जी, जान, प्राण
 * Hopi: qatsi


 * Latin: vita
 * Macedonian:
 * Malayalam: ജീവന്‍
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Vietnamese: sinh hoạt


 * Russian:


 * Swahili:


 * Armenian: կյանք (kyank‘)
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:, ζήση,  πλάση


 * Irish:
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: vita
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian: կյանք (kyank‘)
 * Bosnian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: elamisväärne, elamiskõlblik
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ζωή (zoí)


 * Hebrew: חיים (ħayim)
 * Latin: vita
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Serbian: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: ,


 * Latin: vita
 * Macedonian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian: ցմահ (ts‘mah)
 * Catalan: vida
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: eluaegne
 * Finnish:
 * German: lebenslänglich
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: מאסר עולם (ma'asar olam)


 * Irish: príosúnacht saoil
 * Macedonian: доживотна
 * Malayalam: ജീവപര്യന്തം
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: dożywocie, kara dożywotniego pozbawienia wolności
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пожизненный срок
 * Slovene: doživljenjska
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, livstidsstraff


 * Catalan: vida
 * Czech:
 * Danish: levetid
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: eluaeg
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:, διάρκεια ζωής


 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: животен век, траење
 * Malayalam: കാലാവധി
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * : (ħayā)
 * : lewe
 * : живот (život)
 * : bizi, bizitza, existentzia
 * : tekove
 * : ola, nohona, noho ʻana
 * : vivo
 * : hidup, kehidupan
 * : vita
 * : vita
 * : bomɔi
 * : gyvybė (1,2); gyvenimas  (4, 5)
 * : ora, koiora, wairua ora, tauoranga
 * : (zendegi)
 * : život (1-5), doživotie  (6)
 * : tekobé
 * : yaşam, hayat
 * : bywyd
 * : eluks

Anagrams

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