Synonyms for alive with


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uh-lahyv
Phonetic Transcription : əˈlaɪv

Top 10 synonyms for alive with Other synonyms for the word alive with

Définition of alive with

Origin :
  • c.1200, from Old English on life "in living." The fuller form on live was still current 17c. Alive and kicking "alert, vigorous," attested from 1859; "The allusion is to a child in the womb after quickening" [Farmer]. Used emphatically, especially with man; e.g.:
  • [A]bout a thousand gentlemen having bought his almanacks for this year, merely to find what he said against me, at every line they read they would lift up their eyes, and cry out betwixt rage and laughter, "they were sure no man alive ever writ such damned stuff as this." [Jonathan Swift, Bickerstaff's Vindication, 1709]
  • Thus abstracted as an expletive, man alive! (1845).
  • As in innumerable : adj many, infinite
  • As in many : adj profuse, abundant
  • As in profuse : adj abundant, excessive
  • As in superabundant : adj profuse
  • As in copious : adj abundant
  • As in immeasurable : adj infinite, incalculable

Antonyms for alive with

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