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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