alive
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English alyve, alive, alife, olive, olife, on live, on life, from Old English on līfe (“alive”, literally “in life" or "in (the) body”), from on (“on, in”) + līfe, dative singular of līf (“life”). In this sense, replaced Old English cwic (whence English quick). Equivalent to a- + life. Compare Dutch in leven (“alive”, literally “in life”), German am Leben (“alive”, literally “at life" or "at living”).
Base: life
Affixes: a-
Inflected forms:
form: more alive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most alive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: Having life; living; not dead.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: As long as the plant is alive, he will continue to water it.
I am hee that liueth, and was dead : and behold, I am aliue foꝛ euermoꝛe,Amen,and haue the keyes of hell and of death.
gloss: In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: to keep the fire alive
to keep the affections alive
gloss: Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: Although quite dull during the day, the main street comes alive at night, with many bars and clubs opening.
First a solitary blackbird started up, and soon the whole forest was alive with birdsong.
The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs.
gloss: Carrying electrical current; energized.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: DANGER: OVERHEAD CATENARY—WIRE IS ALIVE
gloss: Aware of; sensitive to.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: We are alive to the ongoing potential for terrorist attacks.
We may be sure that the Church would be alive to the dangers of allowing the plays to be performed outside the sacred edifice.
The railways are fully alive to the position, and are sparing neither effort nor expense to provide more attractive trains and to effect economies, but in such circumstances some curtailment of services is inevitable.
Like many producers, she [Shonda Rhimes] is also alive to concerns over how AI tools will feed into the process of making TV.
gloss: Sprightly; lively; brisk.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: Smouch, requesting Mr. Pickwick in a surly manner ‘to be as alive as he could, for it was a busy time,’ drew up a chair by the door and sat there, until he had finished dressing.
Liverpool’s equaliser came within four minutes. James Milner swung the ball over from a corner on the right and Sadio Mané, Liverpool’s most dangerous player, was alive in the six-yard area.
gloss: Susceptible, sensitive; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
examples: Though tremblingly alive to Nature's laws, Yet ever firm to Honour's sacred cause
This was a reproach to John, and a slur upon the dog; and both were alive to their misfortune.
Beedel raised his slow, meditative eyes and wondered for the hundredth time at the strangely alive expression in the gaze that really seemed to meet his own.
gloss: Out of all living creatures.
pos: adj
tags: emphatic
intensifier
predicative
examples: The Whitest Boy Alive
The Earl of Northumberland 'was the proudest man alive' and 'was in all his deportment a very great man.
I'm the toughest girl alive / I walked through the fire and I survived.
gloss: Synonym of live.
pos: adj
tags: predicative
Synonyms: extant
vital
peppy
zestful
above ground
alive
alive and well
animate
animated
kicking
lively
livesome
living
quick
still with us
surviving
undeceased
vitalic
Antonyms: dead
Derived words: alive and kicking
alive and well
alive internet theory
alively
aliveness
born-alive
catch-'em-alive-O
Christ alive
come alive
dead-alive
dead-and-alive
dead or alive
eat someone alive
flay someone alive
for land's sake alive
for land's sakes alive
for the land's sake alive
for the land's sakes alive
keepalive
keep hope alive
land sake alive
land sakes alive
land's sake alive
land's sakes alive
look alive
man alive
mercy sake's alive
more dead than alive
nonalive
saints alive
sakes alive
skin someone alive
snakes alive
unalive
working alive
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