Synonyms for exist
ɪgˈzɪstex·ist

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1. existverb

   Synonyms:
   be

2. existverb

   to be; have existence; have being or reality

   Synonyms:
   be

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 4 votes

1. exist

   Synonyms:
   be, be certain, be real, be the fact, be true

   Antonyms:
   appear, have the appearance, have the semblance, look, seem

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. exist, beverb

   have an existence, be extant

   "Is there a God?"

   Synonyms:
   embody, subsist, comprise, follow, cost, survive, equal, make up, personify, live, constitute, be, represent

2. exist, survive, live, subsistverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   go, live, hold out, populate, be, experience, hold up, outlive, dwell, live on, come through, pull round, pull through, outlast, endure, subsist, inhabit, survive, know, make it, last

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. existverb

   Synonyms:
   be, subsist, have being

2. existverb

   Synonyms:
   live, breathe, have life, be alive

3. existverb

   Synonyms:
   continue, remain, endure

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "exist":

   exists, existence, existing, be, presence, persist, are

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How to use exist in a sentence?

1. Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck:

   We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

2. Marcel Proust:

   The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

3. Georg Kell:

   My wish is that by then it doesn't exist any more because markets have changed fundamentally, market transformation is our goal and if that were achieved then indeed the Global Compact would no longer need to exist - mission accomplished.

4. Jean-Francois Rameau:

   The main thing is you and I should exist, and that we should be you and I. Apart from that let everything go as it likes. The best order of things to my way thinking, is the one I was meant to be part of, and to hell with the most perfect of worlds if I am not in it. I would rather exist, even as an impudent argufier, than not exist at all.

5. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   This joint European asylum system cannot just exist on paper but must also exist in practice. I say that because it lays out minimum standards for accommodating refugees and the task of registering refugees, our responsibility is deeply moral. It is a human responsibility.