Synonyms for life
laɪflife

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   existence, experience

   Antonyms:
   void

2. lifenoun

   Antonyms:
   death

3. lifenoun

   Antonyms:
   coma

4. lifenoun

   The world in general; existence.

   Man's life on this planet has been marked by continual conflict.

   Synonyms:
   time

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. life

   Behavior is our action in the presence of others; conduct includes also that which is known only to ourselves and our Maker. Carriage expresses simply the manner of holding the body, especially in sitting or walking, as when it is said of a lady "she has a fine carriage." Bearing refers to the bodily expression of feeling or disposition; as, a haughty bearing; a noble bearing. Demeanor is the bodily expression, not only of feelings, but of moral states; as, a devout demeanor. Breeding, unless with some adverse limitation, denotes that manner and conduct which result from good birth and training. Deportment is behavior as related to a set of rules; as, the pupil's deportment was faultless. A person's manner may be that of a moment, or toward a single person; his manners are his habitual style of behavior toward or before others, especially in matters of etiquette and politeness; as, good manners are always pleasing.

   Synonyms:
   action, bearing, behavior, breeding, carriage, conduct, demeanor, deportment, manner, manners

   Preposition:
   The behavior of the pastor to or toward his people, on or upon the streets, before the multitude, or in the church, with the godly, or with the worldly, was alike faultless.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. life

   Synonyms:
   vitality, duration, existence, condition, conduct, animation, vivacity, personality, estate, society, morals, spirit, activity, history, career

   Antonyms:
   mortality, decease, death, non-existence, dullness, torpor, portraiture, lethargy, lifelessness

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:4.0 / 2 votes

1. lifenoun

   a characteristic state or mode of living

   "social life"; "city life"; "real life"

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

2. life, livingnoun

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

   "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life"

   Synonyms:
   liveliness, animation, keep, support, bread and butter, sprightliness, life-time, lifespan, spirit, life sentence, sustenance, life history, aliveness, living, lifetime, biography, livelihood, life story

3. lifenoun

   the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living

   "he hoped for a new life in Australia"; "he wanted to live his own life without interference from others"

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

4. animation, life, living, alivenessnoun

   the condition of living or the state of being alive

   "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes"

   Synonyms:
   brio, liveliness, animateness, animation, life-time, keep, support, bread and butter, vivification, sprightliness, lifespan, spirit, life sentence, invigoration, sustenance, life history, liveness, spiritedness, aliveness, living, lifetime, biography, vitality, livelihood, life story

5. life, lifetime, life-time, lifespannoun

   the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)

   "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life"

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

6. lifenoun

   the period between birth and the present time

   "I have known him all his life"

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

7. lifenoun

   the period from the present until death

   "he appointed himself emperor for life"

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

8. lifenoun

   a living person

   "his heroism saved a life"

   Synonyms:
   sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

9. liveliness, life, spirit, sprightlinessnoun

   animation and energy in action or expression

   "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"

   Synonyms:
   liveliness, smell, flavour, disembodied spirit, animation, life-time, purport, feeling, flavor, sprightliness, lifespan, spirit, life sentence, feel, emotional state, life history, look, aliveness, intent, living, lifetime, biography, tone, heart, life story

10. lifenoun

    living things collectively

    "the oceans are teeming with life"

    Synonyms:
    sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

11. lifenoun

    the organic phenomenon that distinguishes living organisms from nonliving ones

    "there is no life on the moon"

    Synonyms:
    sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

12. biography, life, life story, life historynoun

    an account of the series of events making up a person's life

    Synonyms:
    sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, spirit, life story, life history, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, career, aliveness, animation

13. lifenoun

    a motive for living

    "pottery was his life"

    Synonyms:
    sprightliness, life sentence, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, liveliness, living, life history, aliveness, animation

14. life sentence, lifenoun

    a prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives

    "he got life for killing the guard"

    Synonyms:
    sprightliness, liveliness, lifetime, life story, spirit, life-time, biography, lifespan, life sentence, living, life history, aliveness, animation

Matched Categories

1. • Animation
   • Being
   • Experience
   • History
   • Motive
   • Organic Phenomenon
   • Person
   • Time Period

Editors ContributionRate these synonyms:3.5 / 2 votes

1. mortal coil

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

   to "shuffle off this mortal coil" is to die, as in the "to be, or not to be" soliloquy in shakespeare's hamlet.

   Submitted by anonymous on January 26, 2020  

2. dysthanasia

   Submitted by anonymous on February 7, 2020  

3. the worldnoun

   the world and life can be understood as the same because they can be used in exchangeable sentences

   the world is unfair

   Submitted by chaimgoldman325 on November 21, 2022  

4. zindagi

   zindagi is a urdu word which means precious things like life. however, it is also a nickname of so many people.

   1) my parents is my "life".. (zindagi) 2) my girlfriend is my life... (zindagi)

   Submitted by anonymous on December 3, 2019  

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   vitality, the vital spark, the breath of life, the breath of one's nostrils

2. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   time from birth to death

3. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   animated existence

4. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   mode or course of living

5. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   conduct, deportment, behavior

6. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   animation, vigor, spirit, vivacity, briskness, sprightliness, activity

7. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   biography, memoir

8. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   real person, living form

9. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   society, social manners, human affairs, course of things

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. lifenoun

   Synonyms:
   existence, being, animation, vitality, vivacity, spiritedness, energy, activity, briskness, sprightliness, biography, memoir

   Associated words:
   biology, biologist, vital, biometry, biogenesis, macrobiotics, vitalization, vitalize, bioplasm, protoplasm, elixir, biotic

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:2.0 / 1 vote

1. List of paraphrases for "life":

   living, lives, lifetime, iife, al-hayat, vie, live, liv, livelihood, lifespan, vida, subsistence, vita, duration, perpetuity, existence, lifestyle, hayat, cockalorum, debate, life-span, leben, llfe, al-hayah, lifelong

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. LIFE

   Synonyms:
   Cardiology (1) LIving with heart FailurE questionnaire (2) Losartan Intervention For Endpoint reduction in hypertension trial Nutrition Lifestyle Intervention, Food and Exercise program

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How to use life in a sentence?

1. Shannen Doherty:

   I was like,' OK, do I have good karma ? Do I have bad karma ? Why would I have bad karma ?' I started taking stock of my life and the things I'd done, and the things I hadn't done. How I was with people.

2. Joseph Parambil:

   That’s remarkable only because the risk of lung collapse with [air] travel in these patients is higher than normal, so we always caution these patients to travel, it’s reassuring that patients are able to return back to the life they desire.

3. RAMANA PEMMARAJU:

   You will get when you deserve, not when you desire! So Accept Life and Live in the NOW!

4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ginsburg:

   Has any Virginia judge ever reduced a juvenile life without parole to life with parole or a term of years?

5. Percy B. Shelley:

   Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love replused - but it returneth