Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Life

Nouns
  • life, vitality, viability
  • animation
  • vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit. respiration, wind
  • breath of life, breath of one's nostrils
  • oxygen, air. [devices to sustain respiration] respirator, artificial respirator, heart and lung machine, iron lung
  • medical devices etc. Remedy. lifeblood
  • Archeus
  • existence etc. Existence. vivification
  • vital force
  • vitalization
  • revivification etc. Reproduction
  • Prometheus
  • life to come etc. (destiny) Destiny. [Science of life] physiology, biology
  • animal ecology. nourishment, staff of life etc. (food) [Eating.] Food. genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production) Production. microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe, halophile [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.], archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile [Micro.]. animal etc. Animal
  • vegetable etc. Vegetable. artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence. [vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature. preservation of life, healing (medicine) Remedy.
Verbs
  • be alive etc. adj.
  • live, breathe, respire
  • subsist etc. (exist) Existence
  • walk the earth, strut and fret one's hour upon the stage" [Macbeth]
  • be spared. see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath of life, draw the breath of life
  • quicken
  • revive
  • come to life. give birth to etc. (produce) Production
  • bring to life, put into life, vitalize
  • vivify, vivificate
  • reanimate etc. (restore) Restoration
  • keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from the door
  • support life. hive nine lives like a cat.
Adjectives
  • 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 etc. (active) Activity
  • all alive and kicking
  • tenacious of life
  • full of life, yeasty. vital, vitalic
  • vivifying, vivified, c. v.
  • viable, zoetic
  • Promethean.