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  • adj.being animately existent
  • adj.being active, full of life

synonyms for alive

  • awake
  • conscious
  • viable
  • live
  • animate
  • breathing
  • cognizant
  • dynamic
  • existing
  • extant
  • functioning
  • growing
  • knowing
  • living
  • mortal
  • operative
  • running
  • subsisting
  • vital
  • working
  • zoetic
See also synonyms for: aliveness

antonyms for alive

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  • dead
  • deceased
  • inanimate
  • lifeless
  • unconscious
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More effective disinfection on planes should reduce the transmission of coronavirus via surfaces, such as armrests, where virus left behind by an infected person can stay alive for hours.
AMERICAN AIRLINES TOUTS A NEW TOOL TO COMBAT COVID. BUT DOES IT REALLY MAKE FLYING SAFER?DZANEMORRISAUGUST 24, 2020FORTUNE
To keep females in the breeding stock alive, the company adds the antibiotic tetracycline to the water where the larvae dangle rump-up before transitioning to aerial adulthood.
GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOSQUITOES HAVE BEEN OK’D FOR A FIRST U.S. TEST FLIGHTSUSAN MILIUSAUGUST 22, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
From around 29,700 to 18,530 years ago, when the animal that yielded nuclear DNA was alive, breeding woolly rhinos numbered about 10,600, the team estimates.
CLIMATE CHANGE, NOT HUNTERS, MAY HAVE KILLED OFF WOOLLY RHINOSBRUCE BOWERAUGUST 13, 2020SCIENCE NEWS
It was helpful to first calculate the probability of keeping the streak alive — that is, getting at least one hit in a game.
ARE YOU A PINBALL WIZARD?ZACH WISSNER-GROSSJULY 24, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHT
It is important that customers know that you are alive and in control of the situation on your side.
MARKETING STRATEGIES DURING COVID-19 TIMESEVELINA BROWNJULY 13, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCH
SEO is alive and well, but it has definitely changed over the years.
MODERN SEO STRATEGY: THREE TACTICS TO SUPPORT YOUR EFFORTSNICK CHASINOVJUNE 23, 2020SEARCH ENGINE WATCH
In one case, a man disabled location services on his wife’s phone and used her text messaging services in an unsuccessful attempt to fool her family into thinking she was alive.
DOMESTIC ABUSERS USE TECH THAT CONNECTS AS A WEAPON DURING CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWNSLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 19, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWS
If not, the ancient ancestor of modern amphibians may have passed one trait on to species that are alive today.
LOTS OF FROGS AND SALAMANDERS HAVE A SECRET GLOWERIN GARCIA DE JESUSAPRIL 28, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
Now, the longer that we keep them alive, the more that we need to be able to engage them in supportive environments around really everything.
THE OPIOID TRAGEDY, PART 2: “IT’S NOT A DEATH SENTENCE” (EP. 403)STEPHEN J. DUBNERJANUARY 23, 2020FREAKONOMICS
I think what’s more interesting is, can we create environments for teachers and students where together the data comes alive and fascinates them.
AMERICA’S MATH CURRICULUM DOESN’T ADD UP (EP. 391)STEVEN D. LEVITTOCTOBER 3, 2019FREAKONOMICS
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