alive | Definition of alive

Synonyms and Antonyms of alive

1 having or showing life

we were relieved to find that the little bird was still alive after crashing into the plate glass window

Synonyms of alive

animate, breathing, live, living, quick

Words Related to alive

active, animated, dynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivacious

current, existent, existing, extant, going, prevailing, surviving

Near Antonyms of alive

dying, fading, moribund

reposing, resting

ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty, zombielike

absent, extinct, fallen, finished, gone, lapsed, lost, nonexistent, perished, terminated, vanished, wiped out

Antonyms of alive

asleep, breathless, cold, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, expired, inanimate, lifeless, nonliving

2 marked by much life, movement, or activity

the mall was alive with holiday shoppers

Synonyms of alive

aboil, abubble, abuzz, animated, astir, brisk, bustling, busy, buzzing, flourishing, happening, hopping, humming, kinetic, lively, rousing, stirring, thriving, vibrant

Words Related to alive

abounding, crowded, overflowing, populous, swarming, teeming, thronging

Antonyms of alive

asleep, dead, inactive, lifeless, sleepy

3 being in effective operation

kept the cause of peace alive despite severe setbacks in relations between the two nations

Synonyms of alive

active, functional, functioning, going, live, living, on, operating, operational, operative, running, working

Words Related to alive

effective, effectual

employable, operable, usable (also useable), viable, workable

performing, producing, productive, serving, useful, yielding

astir, bustling, busy, dynamic, flourishing, humming, roaring, thriving

Phrases Synonymous with alive

in commission (or into commision), in force, in gear, on line

Near Antonyms of alive

deactivated, decommissioned

ineffective, ineffectual, useless

inoperable, unusable, unworkable

arrested, asleep, dormant, fallow, idle, inert, latent, lifeless, nonproductive, quiescent, sleepy, stagnating, unproductive, vegetating

Antonyms of alive

broken, dead, inactive, inoperative, kaput (also kaputt), nonactivated, nonfunctional, nonfunctioning, nonoperating, nonoperational, nonoperative