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To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

Why synonyms can be useful

Your writing can sound boring if you continually keep repeating the same words. When you create sentences, you can make them more interesting by using words that mean the same as the word you are speaking about. This allows you to add flavor to your writing.

In order to make language a lot more expressive and interesting you should try to vary the words you use as often as you can.

Antonyms for (adjective) live

Main entry: live Definition: exerting force or containing energy Usage: live coals; tossed a live cigarette out the window; got a shock from a live wire; live ore is unmined ore; a live bomb; a live ball is one in play

Antonyms: dead Definition: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat Usage: Mars is a dead planet; dead soil; dead coals; the fire is dead

Antonyms: dead Definition: people who are no longer living Usage: they buried the dead

Main entry: live, unrecorded Definition: actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing Usage: a live television program; brought to you live from Lincoln Center; live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience

Antonyms: recorded Definition: set down or registered in a permanent form especially on film or tape for reproduction Usage: recorded music

Main entry: alive, live Definition: possessing life Usage: the happiest person alive; the nerve is alive; doctors are working hard to keep him alive; burned alive; a live canary

Antonyms: dead Definition: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life Usage: the nerve is dead; a dead pallor; he was marked as a dead man by the assassin

Main entry: bouncy, springy, live, lively, resilient Definition: elastic; rebounds readily Usage: clean bouncy hair; a lively tennis ball; as resilient as seasoned hickory; springy turf

Antonyms: inelastic Definition: not elastic Usage: economists speak of an inelastic price structure

Main entry: live Definition: of current relevance Usage: a live issue; still a live option

Antonyms: noncurrent Definition: not current or belonging to the present time

Main entry: live Definition: in current use or ready for use Usage: live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread

Antonyms: noncurrent Definition: not current or belonging to the present time

Main entry: alive, live Definition: capable of erupting Usage: a live volcano; the volcano is very much alive

Antonyms: inactive Definition: not active physically or mentally Usage: illness forced him to live an inactive life; dreamy and inactive by nature

Antonyms: inactive Definition: not engaged in full-time work Usage: inactive reserve; an inactive member

Antonyms: inactive Definition: lacking activity; lying idle or unused Usage: an inactive mine; inactive accounts; inactive machinery

Antonyms: inactive Definition: (pathology) not progressing or increasing; or progressing slowly

Antonyms: inactive, passive Definition: lacking in energy or will Usage: Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself- George Meredith

Antonyms: inactive, dormant Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct Usage: a dormant volcano

Antonyms: extinct Definition: (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive Usage: an extinct volcano

Antonyms: stative Definition: ( used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') and most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action

Antonyms: passive Definition: expressing that the subject of the sentence is the patient of the action denoted by the verb Usage: academics seem to favor passive sentences

Antonyms: inactive Definition: not exerting influence or change

Antonyms: quiet Definition: of the sun characterized by a low level of surface phenomena like sunspots e.g.

Main entry: live Definition: abounding with life and energy Usage: the club members are a really live bunch

Antonyms: dull Definition: lacking in liveliness or animation Usage: he was so dull at parties; a dull political campaign; a large dull impassive man; dull days with nothing to do; how dull and dreary the world is; fell back into one of her dull moods

Main entry: live Definition: charged with an explosive Usage: live ammunition; a live bomb

Antonyms: unloaded Definition: (of weapons) not charged with ammunition Usage: many people are killed by guns thought to be unloaded

Main entry: live, hot Definition: charged or energized with electricity Usage: a hot wire; a live wire

Antonyms: uncharged Definition: of a particle or body or system; having no charge Usage: an uncharged particle; an uncharged battery

Main entry: live Definition: highly reverberant Usage: a live concert hall

Antonyms: unreverberant, nonresonant Definition: not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate