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Antonyms for alive

Grammar : Adj
Spell : uh-lahyv
Phonetic Transcription : əˈlaɪv

Definition of alive

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old English on life "in living." The fuller form on live was still current 17c. Alive and kicking "alert, vigorous," attested from 1859; "The allusion is to a child in the womb after quickening" [Farmer]. Used emphatically, especially with man; e.g.:
  • [A]bout a thousand gentlemen having bought his almanacks for this year, merely to find what he said against me, at every line they read they would lift up their eyes, and cry out betwixt rage and laughter, "they were sure no man alive ever writ such damned stuff as this." [Jonathan Swift, Bickerstaff's Vindication, 1709]
  • Thus abstracted as an expletive, man alive! (1845).
  • adj being animately existent
  • adj being active, full of life
Example sentences :
  • I tell you he's alive and well, only he's lost your money and Pish's and mine and his own.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Do you think there is any chance of my father being yet alive?
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Do you think, if I were alive, I would let any man rob me of the savings of my life?
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • He came home with me, and, far from having perished at sea, is now alive and well.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • He's left a gent more dead than alive back in Martindale, and I want him.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • They were all facing him, and their faces were alive with interest; yet they made no hostile move.
  • Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
  • We are creating a nation once again vibrant, robust, and alive.
  • Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various
  • With my father when he was alive, with my mother, it has always been Austin this and Austin that.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • "Were he alive we should have had word of him ere now," said he.
  • Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • But the great object of Cleon and Demosthenes was to take them alive.
  • Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

Synonyms for alive

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