'Exist' definitions:
Definition of 'exist'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Exist'
From: GCIDE
- Exist \Ex*ist"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.] [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]
- 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. [1913 Webster]
- Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist in water, nor fishes on land.
- Syn: See Be. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exist'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abide,
- abide in,
- Be,
- be,
- be alive,
- be animate,
- be coextensive with,
- be comprised in,
- be constituted by,
- be contained in,
- be extant,
- be found,
- be in existence,
- be located,
- be met with,
- be present,
- be present in,
- be situated,
- be the case,
- be there,
- bide,
- breathe,
- carry on,
- consist in,
- continue,
- continue to be,
- defeat time,
- defy time,
- draw breath,
- dwell,
- dwell in,
- endure,
- exist in,
- extend,
- fetch breath,
- get along,
- get by,
- go on,
- happen,
- happen to be,
- have being,
- have life,
- have place,
- hold,
- hold on,
- hold out,
- indwell,
- inhabit,
- inhere,
- inhere in,
- keep,
- keep on,
- last,
- last long,
- last out,
- lie,
- lie in,
- live,
- live and breathe,
- live on,
- live through,
- maintain,
- move,
- obtain,
- occur,
- perdure,
- perennate,
- persist,
- prevail,
- remain,
- repose in,
- reside,
- reside in,
- respire,
- rest in,
- run,
- run on,
- stand,
- stay,
- stay on,
- subsist,
- subsist in,
- survive,
- sustain,
- tarry,
- tide over,
- walk the earth,
- wear,
- wear well