living

the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities

pertaining to living persons

“within living memory”

still in existence

“the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil”

the financial means whereby one lives

the condition of living or the state of being alive

absolute

“she is a living doll”

people who are still living

“save your pity for the living”

still in active use

“a living language”

true to life; lifelike

“the living image of her mother”

in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried

“carved into the living stone”