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Synonyms for life
noun animation, spirit
- activity
- growth
- heart
- soul
- being
- breath
- brio
- dash
- energy
- enthusiasm
- entity
- esprit
- essence
- excitement
- get-up-and-go
- go
- impulse
- lifeblood
- liveliness
- oomph
- sentience
- sparkle
- verve
- viability
- vigor
- vitality
- vivacity
- zest
- zing
- high spirits
- élan
- élan vital
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Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
Word Origin & History
Old English life (dative lif) “existence, lifetime, way of life, condition of being a living thing, opposite of death,” from Proto-Germanic *libam (cf. Old Norse lif “life, body,” Dutch lijf “body,” Old High German lib “life,” German Leib “body”), properly “continuance, perseverance,” from PIE *leip- “to remain, persevere, continue; stick, adhere” (see leave (v.)). Much of the modern range of meanings was present in Old English. Meaning “property which distinguishes living from non-living matter” is from 1560s. Sense of “vitality, energy” is from 1580s. Extended 1703 to “term of duration (of inanimate objects).”
Life-jacket is from 1840; life-preserver from 1630s of anything that is meant to save a life, 1803 of devices worn to prevent drowning. Life-saver is from 1883, figurative use from 1909, as a brand of hard sugar candy, from 1912, so called for shape. Life-form is from 1861. Life cycle is from 1855.
Example Sentences for life
They rile me—that talk about ‘people in the humbler walks of life.’
Your life must be saved; even if you reprove me for the means.
Once it was that he had felt a sudden great longing for the life of a gay city.
It wa’n’t good for him to be holed up out there in them hills all his life.
I feel the breath of life taken away from me by the multitude.
That shows you what life in a great city does for the morally weak.
On the contrary, indeed, he appeared to joy immensely in Percival’s way of life.
Aspasia will tell you I have been a beautiful but idle dreamer all my life.
I think this blessing comes from the Divine, by reason of the innocence of his life.
The man who has just saved his life can no doubt obtain any favour.
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