life
noun
[ lʌɪf ]
• the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.
• "the origins of life"
Similar:
existence,
being,
living,
animation,
aliveness,
animateness,
entity,
sentience,
creation,
survival,
viability,
esse,
• the existence of an individual human being or animal.
• "a disaster that claimed the lives of 266 people"
• the period between the birth and death of a living thing, especially a human being.
• "she has lived all her life in the country"
Similar:
lifetime,
life span,
days,
duration of life,
allotted span,
course of life,
time on earth,
existence,
one's time,
one's career,
threescore years and ten,
this mortal coil,
one's born days,
• vitality, vigour, or energy.
• "she was beautiful and full of life"
Similar:
vivacity,
animation,
liveliness,
vitality,
verve,
high spirits,
sparkle,
exuberance,
zest,
buoyancy,
effervescence,
enthusiasm,
energy,
vigour,
dynamism,
go,
elan,
gusto,
brio,
bounce,
spirit,
spiritedness,
activity,
fire,
panache,
colour,
dash,
drive,
push,
business,
bustle,
hustle and bustle,
movement,
stir,
oomph,
pizzazz,
pep,
zing,
zip,
vim,
get-up-and-go,
moving spirit,
moving force,
animating spirit,
vital spirit,
vital spark,
life force,
lifeblood,
essence,
core,
heart,
soul,
strength,
quintessence,
substance,
élan vital,
• (in art) the depiction of a subject from a real model, rather than from an artist's imagination.
• "the pose and clothing were sketched from life"
Origin:
Old English līf, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lijf, German Leib ‘body’, also to live1.
to the life
• exactly like the original.
• "there he was, Nathan to the life, sitting at a table"
