Alive

Definition: Alive

Alive

Adjective

1. Possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive".

2. (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit; "she was wonderfully alive for her age"; "a face alive with mischief".

3. Having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news".

4. (followed by `to' or `of') aware of; "is alive to the moods of others".

5. In operation; "keep hope alive"; "the tradition was still alive"; "an active tradition".

6. (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive; "alert to the problems"; "alive to what is going on"; "awake to the dangers of her situation"; "was now awake to the reality of his predicament".

7. Capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive".

Date "alive" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Domain	Definition
Electrical Engineering	Either charged with d. c. potential different from the earth's or connected to a source of a. c. or d. c. power. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	Said of coal when it makes a rustling sound as it bursts, cracks, and breaks off while under pressure. The rising of methane from the coalcauses a similar sound. CF:dead. (references)
Public Administration	Also live; term sometimes used in electricity for a wire or circuit charged with current. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ALIVE	English	Artificial Life Interactive Video Environment	Computing
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Alive

Synonyms: active (adj), alert (adj), alive(p) (adj), animated (adj), awake(p) (adj), live(a) (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: dead (adj), unanimated (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Activity	Adjective: active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring.
Intelligence Wisdom	Adjective: intelligent, quick of apprehension, keen, acute, alive, brainy, awake, bright, quick, sharp; quick witted, keen witted, clear witted, sharp- eyed, sharp sighted, sharp witted; wide-awake; canny, shrewd, astute; clear-headed; farsighted; discerning, perspicacious, penetrating, piercing; argute; quick-witted, nimble-witted, needle-witted; sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack; alive to; (cognizant); clever; (apt); arch; (cunning); pas si bete; acute.
Life	Adjective: living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively. (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life; full of life, yeasty.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	What a wonderful time to be alive, eh (I.Q.; writing credit: Andy Breckman and Michael Leeson.) The Hills are alive with the sound of music (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce) What I want to know is how we're going to stay alive this winter (Doctor Zhivago; writing credit: Boris Pasternak; Robert Bolt) We're still alive 'cause we're smoking (The Blair Witch Project; writing credit: Daniel Myrick; Eduardo Sánchez) They may yet still be alive. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)
Lyrics	I feel so alive (Alive; performing artist: P.O.D.) I'm wanted dead or alive (Wanted Dead or Alive; performing artist: Bon Jovi) Oh, Alive and Kicking (Alive And Kicking; performing artist: Simple Minds; writing credit: Simple Minds) love will keep us alive (Love Will Keep Us Alive; performing artist: The Eagles) And it's a great day to be alive (It's A Great Day To Be Alive; performing artist: Travis Tritt)
Clever	Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time. (references; author: Mark Twain) Life is hard, no one makes it out alive. (references; author: unknown) Discharge status: Alive, but without my permission. (references; author: unknown) Some people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them. (references; author: unknown) If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of payments. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	It's Alive! (1974) The Blues Is Alive and Well and Living in Chicago (1970) More Dead Than Alive (1969) 'It's Alive!' (1969) The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Song Titles	Born To Be Alive (performing artist: Patrick Hernandez) So Alive (performing artist: Love & Rockets) ALIVE (performing artist: P.O.D.) Alive And Kicking (performing artist: Simple Minds) Love Will Keep Us Alive (performing artist: The Eagles)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball Calendar (reference) Nine Alive!: The Miraculous Rescue of the Pennsylvania Miners (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Alive (reference) Alive Magazine (reference) Alive! A Magazine For Christian Senior Adults (reference) America Alive - Cd-rom Ibm (reference) Being Alive (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Dead Alive (Unrated Edition) (reference) The Fastest Gun Alive (reference) Alive (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Bring 'Em Bach Alive [LIVE] (reference) Alive in Torment (reference) Aliens Alive (reference) Luckiest Man Alive (reference) Plankton Comes Alive (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Dead or Alive 2: Hardcore (reference) Dead or Alive 3 (reference) Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Anti-cancer drugs can now be tested on human cancer cell lines in vitro for cytotoxicity and effectiveness without the use of animals. In an assay color changes in the wells show what proportion of cultured cancer cells remain alive after they have been exposed to the test drug. The plates are read by computer, and results are automatically sent to a centralized computer where they are converted into graphic reports. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		A huge sting ray off the Carolinas. This fish was put back in the water alive. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Hauling in herring-seine at Herbert's Fishery, Detroit River Inclosure for keeping fish alive Sketch by L. Kumlien. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.		Pond fishery, Detroit River; inclosure for keeping fish alive Photograph by U. S. Fish Commission. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.
	The hills are alive with the sounds of pollinating insects, and that's exactly what technicians Rebekah Andrus (left) and Olivia Messinger are netting in a field near the Wellsville Mountains in Utah. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Jack Dykinga..		A throat operation kept alive this little Indonesian victim of diphtheria ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by L. Matlovski..
	Child Alive. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Customer: Sakes alive, Carline! yo' orter see how brilliant it am : if I didn't know dat war Wenus ... Credit: Library of Congress.
	I came newly alive there at the turning at the sight of the smoke in my own chimney. Credit: Library of Congress.		Wouldn't it peeve you if -- you had carefully obfuscated a jinx and then found it alive and busy later?. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Author	Quotation
Betty Friedan	The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.
Elbert Hubbard	If you suffer, thank God! -- it is a sure sign that you are alive.
	Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
George Washington	Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Horace Greeley	Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.
Martin Luther	To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Seneca	Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
William Shakespeare	There's place and means for every man alive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	When the execution of the contract thus kept alive would owing to the alteration of trade conditions, cause one of the parties substantial prejudice the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal provided for by Section VI shall be empowered to grant to the prejudiced party equitable compensation. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish	Douglas Adams	Indeed there were no casual observers in the Old Pink Dog Bar on the lower South Side of Han Dold City because it wasn't the sort of place you could afford to do things casually in if you wanted to stay alive. Any observers in the place would have been mean hawklike observers, heavily armed, with painful throbbings in their heads which caused them to do crazy things when they observed things they didn't like
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was terrifying to suppose that it was perhaps dead, and still more terrifying to think that it might be alive.
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Why, then he is alive.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	These rights were crushed, because the little worlds could not exist for even a night with such rights alive.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I took with me six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country, and propagate the breed
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It buries itself alive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The liver does many things to keep you alive. (references)
		A child with kidney failure requires dialysis to stay alive. (references)
		It's called a living will because it takes effect while you are still alive. (references)
Business		Strong demand from government departments and banks ensured the market for dot matrix printers was kept alive even though the worldwide trend has been the opposite. (references)
Children	Philippines	In September a former NPA member, recruited at age 13 and carrying a weapon by the time she was 15, told reporters that the NPA had deceived her into believing that the Government was "nothing but evil." A 12-year-old former NPA member said that he cooperated with the NPA against his will because "I feared for my family, they said they would skin them alive." According to domestic and international NGO's, the MILF recruited children as young as 12 years of age to serve as reserve forces. (references)
Civil Liberties	Zimbabwe	Several days before the explosion, Minister Moyo told Sandra Nyaira, a political reporter for the Daily News, that "The Daily News is not going to survive as long as I am alive. (references)
	Korea	Seoul Archbishop Nicholas Jin-Suk Cheong, appointed by the Pope as Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang, was quoted in July 2000 as stating that while there were 50 priests in the country in the 1940's, it is not known if they are still alive today. (references)
Economic History	Italy	The Italian market for U.S. agricultural products is alive and well, having grown almost 11 percent in 2000 despite the strong dollar. (references)
	Cuba (09/01)	Assistance from Jewish communities abroad, including arranging for visiting rabbis and rabbinical students, helps to keep the Hebrew faith alive in Cuba. (references)
	Sweden	This summary hasn't mentioned the growing importance of the biotechnology sector, which along with the related pharmaceutical sector is alive and growing, and could kick in a second wave of growth within this decade. (references)
Human Rights	Haiti	They burned some alive, decapitated others, and mutilated the bodies. (references)
	Colombia	There were no indications that the abducted investigators were still alive. (references)
	Philippines	Three of the seven were found alive, but four remained missing at year's end. (references)
Political Rights	Burundi	Not all of those elected in 1993 are alive or in the country, and the vacant seats were filled by substitutes from the same political party as the original parliamentarian. (references)
Worker Rights	United Arab Emirates	A farm worker in Al-Ain died after being buried alive in sand while digging a well. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of. A king, in times long, long gone by, Said to his lazy jester: "If I were you and you were I My moments merrily would fly -- Nor care nor grief to pester." "The reason, Sire, that you would thrive," The fool said -- "if you'll hear it -- Is that of all the fools alive Who own you for their sovereign, I've The most forgiving spirit." Oogum Bem KING'S :EVIL:, n. A malady that was formerly cured by the touch of the sovereign, but has now to be treated by the physicians. Thus 'the most pious Edward" of England used to lay his royal hand upon the ailing subjects and make them whole -- a crowd of wretched souls That stay his cure: their malady convinces The great essay of art; but at his touch, Such sanctity hath Heaven given his hand, They presently amend, as the "Doctor" in Macbeth hath it. This useful property of the royal hand could, it appears, be transmitted along with other crown properties; for according to "Malcolm," 'tis spoken To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. But the gift somewhere dropped out of the line of succession: the later sovereigns of England have not been tactual healers, and the disease once honored with the name "king's evil" now bears the humbler one of "scrofula," from scrofa, a sow. The date and author of the following epigram are known only to the author of this dictionary, but it is old enough to show that the jest about Scotland's national disorder is not a thing of yesterday. Ye Kynge his evill in me laye, Wh. he of Scottlande charmed awaye. He layde his hand on mine and sayd: "Be gone!" Ye ill no longer stayd. But O ye wofull plyght in wh. I'm now y-pight: I have ye itche! The superstition that maladies can be cured by royal taction is dead, but like many a departed conviction it has left a monument of custom to keep its memory green. The practice of forming a line and shaking the President's hand had no other origin, and when that great dignitary bestows his healing salutation on strangely visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he and his patients are handing along an extinguished torch which once was kindled at the altar-fire of a faith long held by all classes of men. It is a beautiful and edifying "survival" -- one which brings the sainted past close home in our "business and bosoms."
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Bob Barker	Well, obviously, they have to be very attractive physically. They have to look smashing in a swimsuit. And we would like to have them be bright and able to make a refrigerator come alive for you.
Bob Graham	The best intelligence is that he's still alive. The best intelligence is that, of all the places he might be, he's most likely to still be in Afghanistan. But frankly, we do not know where he is at this time.
Jerry Lewis	Look at this, you've got to look at this. You've got to look to two powerhouse women of the world. There is the two women that are keeping me alive, thank God. Everyone should have that, and I'm sure many do.
Jodie Foster	Don't ask me. I don't know. I don't know. But as I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.
Laura Schlessinger	That, they couldn't tell me. But the police officer said they didn't believe that she died immediately, but they believe that she wasn't with her faculties for whatever small period of time she was alive because she didn't pick up the phone or anything.
Rod Steiger	Just stay mentally healthy and physically healthy and make sure my son and wife respect me, whether I'm alive or to hear my name today or tomorrow.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Harry S. Truman	1945-1953	The Congress has shown itself alive to the practical requirements for a beneficial use of our water resources by providing that preference in the sale of power be given to farmers' cooperatives and public agencies.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	We are creating a nation once again vibrant, robust, and alive.
George Bush	1989-1993	America, not just the nation, but an idea alive in the minds of the people, everywhere.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	I just told the Speaker the equal time doctrine is alive and well.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Alive" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Alive" is used about 4,249 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	4,249	2,311

Expressions using "alive": active alive ♦ alive and kicking ♦ alive and well ♦ alive to ♦ alive with ♦ all alive ♦ any man alive ♦ be alive ♦ be alive and kicking ♦ be alive to ♦ be alive with ♦ buried alive ♦ bury alive ♦ burying alive ♦ come alive ♦ come alive again ♦ dead alive ♦ dead or alive ♦ Interjection: be alive ♦ keep alive ♦ keep alive the memory of smb. ♦ look alive ♦ more dead than alive ♦ no man alive ♦ skin smb. alive ♦ stay alive ♦ take smb. alive of dead ♦ the fastest man alive. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "alive": alive-o, alive-oh.
	Ending with "alive": half-alive.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "alive"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		leef (be alive, live). (various references)

Albanian		gjallë (in the flesh, lively, living person, sprightly). (various references)

Arabic		حي (energetic, section of a city, to live), ‏ناشط (active, brisk, busy, furious, kinetic, pragmatic, smart, stirring, vivid), ‏حي (active, animate, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, lifelike, live, lively, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nod, part, pictorial, picturesque, quarter, reanimate, recall, regenerate, section, vivid, ward), ‏على قيد الحياة (above ground). (various references)

Bulgarian		гъмжащ (abuzz), в сила (in effect), в действие (active, afoot, operational), оживен (active, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, lively, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious), живо (graphically, jauntily, lively, quickly, racily, roundly, vitally), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), буден (alert, awake, sleepless, unsleeping, wakeful, waking), бодър (cheerful, fresh), пъргав (active, agile, alert, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, lively, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), пълен (absolute, all out, ample, beefy, clear, compendious, complete, corpulent, dead, entire, exhaustive, explicit, fat, fleshy, fraught, full, grand, implicit, intact, integral, integrate, lousy, murky, out and out, outright, overall, overblown, perfect, plenary, portly, profound, pursy, radical, rank, replenished, replete, riddle, right, round, sheer, stark, stout, substantial, teetotal, thoroughgoing, thorough-paced, total, unabbreviated, universal, unmitigated, unqualified, unreserved, utter, vast, very, well fed, whole, whole-footed, whole-hog), под напрежение (live), действуващ (active, effective, operable, operating, operative). (various references)

Catalan		viure (be alive, live). (various references)

Chinese		活 (live). (various references)

Czech		živý (active, airy, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, lively, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references)

Danish		levende. (various references)

Dutch		levend (Live). (various references)

Esperanto		vivanta. (various references)

Faeroese		liva (be alive, live, vegetate). (various references)

Farsi		حساس (Acute, Delicate, Exquisite, Sensitive, Sensory, Stark, Susceptible, Techy, Tender, Ticklish, Touchy, Vigilant), سرزنده (Animate, Live, Lively, Snappy, Spirituous, Sprightly, Vivacious, Yare), سرشار (Galore, Opulence, Profuse), زنده (Fresh, Lively, Quick, Vivid), روشن (Alight, Bright, Definite, Diaphanous, Ditinct, Eidetic, Elucidate, Explicit, Express, Intelligible, Legible, Limpid, Lucid, Perspicuous, Serene, Set, Shrill, Sunny, Unequivocal, Vivid), درقیدحیات (Aboveground). (various references)

Finnish		jännitteinen (live), hengissä, elävältä (elävänä). (various references)

French		vivant. (various references)

Frisian		libben. (various references)

German		lebendig (bubbly, exuberant, fervent, live, livelily, lively, living, spirited, spiritedly, vital, vivid), lebend (animate, live, living), belebt (animate, animates, busy, enlivened, enlivens, freshens, inspirits, livens, living, variegates, vitalizes, vivifies). (various references)

Greek		υπό τάση, ζωντανόσ (live, living, vivid), ζωντανός (animated, fresh, live, living, vivid), ζων (live, liver, living), ζωτανός, ενεργός,υπό τάση, εν ζωή. (various references)

Hawaiian		jetesë, gjallë. (various references)

Hebrew		חי (active, animate, live, living, quick). (various references)

Hungarian		eleven (animated, beany, bobbish, brisk, cheerful, kinetic, live, lively, living, mercurial, mettlesome, peart, perky, picturesque, racy of the soil, rattling, smart, sprightly, spruce, to be full of beans, to feel one's oats, vivacious, vivid), életben lévő, élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, canty, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, keen, live, lively, loud cheers, mercurial, nimble, nippy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm), élő (animate, animated, have life, living, living being). (various references)

Icelandic		lifandi, á lífi. (various references)

Indonesian		aktif (active, energetic, functioning), penuh energi, hidup (life, live, vital, vivid), bernyawa. (various references)

Irish		i do bheatha, beo. (various references)

Italian		vivo (bright, deep, lifelike, live, lively, living, living person, quick, racy, raw, sharp, soul). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		生還 (baseball reaching the home plate, returning alive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぞんめい (being alive), ぞんじょう (being alive), きそくえんえん (be at one's last gasp, be more dead than alive, gasping for breath), くいのばす (to keep alive on, to stretch food to make ends meet), ざいせい (being alive, economy, financial affairs, living), せいぜん (accurate, aiming at the eye, during one's lifetime, oath, orderly, petition, regular, trim, well-organized, west bank, west coast, westward advance, while alive), せいかん (can manufacturing, careful supervision, fearless, grand spectacle, intrepid, peaceful, quiet, reaching the home plate, returning alive, seminal duct, sexual feelings, tranquility, watchful waiting), いきうめ (burying alive), いしこづめ (burying alive beneath stones), いのちがらがら (barely escaping alive, for dear life), いのちからがら (barely escaping alive, for dear life), いけどる (to capture alive, to take prisoner), こうじゅ (burying Confucian scholars alive, oral instruction or teaching or method). (various references)

Korean		살아 있는 (Animate). (various references)

Manx		bio (activated, afloat, bright, hot, lifelike, live, live person, pictorial, spring tide after neap). (various references)

Papiamen		biba (abide, be alive, dwell, live). (various references)

Pig Latin		aliveay.(various references)

Polish		żyć (be alive, live). (various references)

Portuguese		vivo (above-ground, active, acute, adroit, agile, alert, argute, bobbish, bouncing, brainy, breezy, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, clear-sighted, clinking, coltish, cork, corky, crisp, dapper, diagram, fervent, frisky, gaudy, gay, graphic, graphical, hasty, hurry, intense, juicy, keen, kittenish, knowing, light, lightsome, live, lively, living, luminous, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, nimble, nippy, parky, perky, pert, picturesque, poignant, quick, racy, rattling, resilient, shrewd, smart, spanking, speaking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stirring, subtil, subtile, subtle, swift, swift-handed, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, watchful, zippy). (various references)

Romanian		activ (acting, active, actively, afoot, aggressive, agile, assets, bouncing, brisk, busy, dapper, diligent, dynamic, efficient, energetic, fierce, go ahead, industrious, living, operative, pragmatic, quick, regular, spry), viu (animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, lively, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), sub tensiune, sprinten (agile, agilely, fleet, fleet-footed, light footed, lightsome, lissom, lithe, lively, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, trippingly, wanton, wing-footed), receptiv (acquisitive, apprehensive, nimble, open minded, perceptively, pervious, receptive, recipe), iute (agile, alert, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, lively, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), energic (a live wire, active, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, lively, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), încãrcat (busy, close, foul, heavy, inflated, laden, loaded, luscious, painty, strained), în viaţã (above ground, live, living). (various references)

Russian		кишащий, заживо, живой;работоспособный, живой (animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, lively, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy), бодрый (buoyant, cheerful, cheery, chipper, erect, fresh, hale and hearty, peppy). (various references)

Scottish		beò (living, nm. living creature). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		koji je u pogonu, bodar (corky), živo (flesh: in the flesh, lively, quickly), živ (hoof: on the hoof, live, living, quick, rousing, vivid). (various references)

Spanish		vivo (active, animated, bright, facile, gay, hot, live, lively, living, quick, quickset, quicksilver, realist, realistic, rich, rousing, short, smart, sprightly, vital, vivid). (various references)

Sranan		libilibi. (various references)

Swedish		levande (animate, lifelike, live, living, on the hoof, quick, vivid), strömförande (conducting). (various references)

Tagalog		buháy. (various references)

Turkish		yaşayan (animate, in the flesh, live, lived, living, quick, vital), sağ (Dexter, living, offside, right, right hand, right wing), hayatta, hayat dolu (alive and kicking, animate, animated, as fresh as daisy, Corky, dewy, exuberant, fresh, full of life, genial, live, lively, quick, sprightly, vital, vivacious, vivid), farkında (aware, conscious, sensible), elektrik yüklü (live), diri (live, youthful), canlı (active, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, lively, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy). (various references)

Turkmen		janly (active, lively), diriligene, diri. (various references)

Ukrainian		існуючий (existent, going, in being, in existence, living), сприйнятливий (acquisitive, adoptive, apprehensive, apt, cataleptic, facile, open minded, perceptive, pervious, receptive, recipient, sensitive, susceptive), чуйний (charitable, feeling, kind hearted, ministering, nice, respondent, responsive, understanding), заповнений (throng), жвавий (active, agile, airy, alert, alive and kicking, animated, breezy, brisk, canty, chirpy, crisp, dashing, exhilarated, gleg, jaunty, live, living, mobile, nimble, peppy, perky, slippy, sprightly, vivid, whisky, youthful, zippy), живий (above ground, animate, live, lively, living, on the hoof, vegetal, vivacious), бадьорий (alive and kicking, bobbish, cheerful, cheery, chipper, sprightly), прдуктивний, діючий (acting, active, effective, effectual, efficacious, going, operable, operating, operative, working). (various references)

Vietnamese		sinh động (breathing, lifeful, lively), sống (crude, live, lively, living, unbaked), nhung nhúc, nhận thức được (perceptive, percipient), nhanh nhẹn (agile, alert, crispy, dapper, spry, tripping), lúc nhúc nhanh nhảu, hoạt động hiểu rõ, giác ngộ, còn tồn tại, còn sống, còn giá trị nhan nhản, còn có hiệu lực, đang sống vẫn còn. (various references)

Welsh		byw (animate, life, live, living, quick). (various references)

Yucatec		kuxa'an. (various references)

Zulu		-phila (be alive, live). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	incolomem, incolomes, salva, salvae, salvam, salvas, salve, salvi, salvo, salvos, salvosque, salvum, salvus, salvusne, viva, vivae, vivam, vivas, vive, vivi, vivis, vivo, vivorum, vivos, vivum, vivus. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	jvô. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	cwic. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Acts Chapter 20, Verse 12
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Hgagon de ton paida zwnta kai pareklhqhsan ou metriwV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Adduxerunt autem puerum viventem et consolati sunt non minime
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And thei brouyten the childe alyue, and thei weren coumfortid greetli.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	And they brought the youge man a lyve and were not alytell comforted.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And they brought the young man alive, and were not a little comforted.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And they took the boy in, living, and were greatly comforted.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Acts Chapter 20, Verse 12
Albanian	Ndërkaq e prunë djalin të gjallë, dhe u ngushëlluan jo pak.
Cebuano	Ug ang batan-on ilang gidala nga buhi, ug sila nangalipay ug daku uyamot.
Chinese	有人把那童子活活的領來、得的安慰不少。
Croatian	Mladiæa odvedoše živa, neizmjerno utješeni.
Danish	Men de bragte det unge Menneske levende op og vare ikke lidet trøstede.
Dutch	En zij brachten den knecht levende, en waren bovenmate vertroost.
Finnish	Ja he veivät pojan sieltä elävänä ja tulivat suuresti lohdutetuiksi.
French	Le jeune homme fut ramené vivant, et ce fut le sujet d`une grande consolation.
German	Sie brachten aber den Knaben lebendig und wurden nicht wenig getröstet.
Haitian Creole	Yo mennen jenn gason an vivan lakay li. Se te yon ankourajman pou tout moun.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang-orang membawa pulang pemuda itu hidup ke rumahnya. Mereka merasa senang dan sangat terhibur.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Maka orang pun membawa budak itu dengan hidup; maka sekaliannya beroleh penghiburan banyak.
Italian	Intanto avevano ricondotto il ragazzo vivo, e si sentirono molto consolati.
Latvian	Bet zçnu tie aizveda dzîvu un ïoti priecâjâs.
Maori	Heoi arahina oratia atu ana e ratou taua taitama, kihai hoki i nohinohi te koa.
Norwegian	De førte da gutten levende bort og blev høilig trøstet.
Portuguese	E levaram vivo o jovem e ficaram muito consolados.
Rumanian	Flqcqul a fost adus viu, wi lucrul acesta a fost pricina unei mari mkngkieri.
Russian	нЕЦДХ ФЕН ПФТПЛБ РТЙЧЕМЙ ЦЙЧПЗП, Й ОЕНБМП ХФЕЫЙМЙУШ.
Shuar	Eutikiuncha iwiaakun ni jeen Júkiarmiayi. Tura Ashí aents shiir Enentáimsarmiayi.
Spanish	Ellos llevaron al joven vivo y fueron grandemente consolados.
Swahili	Wale watu walimchukua yule kijana nyumbani akiwa mzima kabisa, wakapata kitulizo kikubwa.
Swedish	Och de förde ynglingen hem levande och kände sig nu icke litet tröstade.
Uma	Ane kabilasa to monawu' toei we'i, tuwu' moto-i-hawo, pai' goe' lia-ra doo-na mpokeni-i hilou hi tomi-na.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "alive": aliveness, alivenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Alive" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acive, Adiuva, agive, ahive, Aijv, Ailbe, Ailie, aive, ajive, akif, Akiva, aleave, alede, aleive, aleve, Aleves, Alevi, alevin, aliae, alide, alie, alieve, alieved, Alif, alifs, alire, alite, alitex, alives, alivy, alize, Allaf, allev, Alleva, alleve, alov, Alve, alvi, Alvia, Alvio, Alvise, alyve, aniv, Aoife, apliavit, arive, ative, Aulide, Avilez, Ayivor, Ballulve, eluve, Exivi, Galiev, Galivel, Iliev, Klive, laif, laive, lative, lauve, lavie, nalive, salive, Ulviye. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "alive" (pronounced ulī"v)
3	-l ī" v	live.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-i-l-v"
	-1 letter: evil, ilea, lave, leva, live, vail, vale, veal, veil, vela, vial, vile.
	-2 letters: ail, ale, ave, lav, lea, lei, lev, lie, via, vie.
	-3 letters: ae, ai, al, el, la, li.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-i-l-v"
	+1 letter: alevin, alvine, eluvia, glaive, silvae, vagile, vailed, valine, valise, veinal, venial, viable, vialed, villae, vineal.
	+2 letters: alevins, alveoli, anviled, availed, bivalve, caviled, caviler, clavier, devisal, elative, eluvial, estival, exuvial, flavine, glaived, glaives, heavily, javelin, leavier, leaving, livable, naively, prevail, ravelin, reavail, revisal, revival, rivaled, valeric, valines, valises, variole, vealier, vealing, vedalia, velaria, ventail, vesical, vexilla, vialled, vilayet, village, violate, virelai, virelay.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
dead or alive	2,287	staying alive	79
alive	509	alive dead wallpaper	79
dead or alive 3	477	dead or alive pic	78
dead or alive hentai	463	wanted dead or alive	78
dead or alive xtreme beach volleyball	416	keep alive	75
dead or alive extreme beach volleyball	312	stayin alive	71
dead or alive 2	244	alive columbus	67
11 alive	204	alive dead extreme volleyball	66
dead or alive beach volleyball	202	dead or alive picture	62
dead or alive volleyball	184	4 alive dead	60
2 pac alive	181	i m alive	59
dead alive	169	bee alive	57
11 alive news	161	alive beach cheat dead extreme volleyball	57
dead or alive nude	141	alive dead porn	56
alive festival	129	alive cheat dead volleyball	56
garden alive	121	dead or alive girl	55
3 alive cheat dead	119	buried alive	54
alive beach cheat dead volleyball xtreme	104	alive dead kasumi	53
is tupac alive	100	to stay alive	53
five alive	89	alive dead doujinshi	53
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Alive

Definition: Alive

Alive

Adjective

Specialty Definition: Alive

Specialty Definition: Life

Other definitions

Descent with modification: a "useful" characteristic

Reference

External link

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Alive

ALIVE

Synonyms: Alive

Synonyms within Context: Alive

Activity

Intelligence Wisdom

Life

Crosswords: Alive

Modern Usage: Alive

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

Movie/TV Titles

Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Alive

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Alive

Illustrations:Alive

Computer Images:Alive

Photo Album: Alive

Digital Photo Gallery: Alive

Familiar Quotations: Alive

Betty Friedan

Elbert Hubbard

George Washington

Horace Greeley

Martin Luther

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Seneca

William Shakespeare

Historic Usage: Alive

Treaty of Versailles

Use in Literature: Alive

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

Douglas Adams

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

Non-Fiction Usage: Alive

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Alive

Bob Barker

Bob Graham

Jerry Lewis

Jodie Foster

Laura Schlessinger

Rod Steiger

Speeches: Alive

Harry S. Truman

Ronald Reagan

George Bush

Bill Clinton

Usage Frequency: Alive

Expression: Alive

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Alive

Modern Translation: Alive

Afrikaans

Albanian

Illustrations:
Alive

Computer Images:
Alive