Synonyms for exist
ɪgˈzɪstexist

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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, exist, 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, exist, 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. José Ortega y Gasset:

   For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

2. Volodymyr Zelenskyy:

   If such an alliance would exist today…we would be able to save thousands of lives in our country, in many countries of the world who need peace, those who suffer inhumane destruction.

3. Albert Schweitzer:

   Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

4. 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.

5. Laura Jaworski:

   It isn't about being the best, because once you tap into the creative flow, the best doesn't exist. It's about experiencing the magic. It's about being in that place where your heart is free. It's about grabbing hold of the intangible, and making something beautiful.