Existent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Existent \Ex*ist"ent\, a. [L. existens, -entis, p. pr. of
     existere. See {Exist}.]
     Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now;
     taking place.
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           The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no
           real being, as if they were truly existent. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  existent
       adj 1: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to
              refine the existent machinery to make it more
              efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the
              world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran" [syn: {existing}]
              [ant: {nonexistent}]
       2: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified
          existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not
          ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness";
          "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"-
          Longfellow [syn: {real}] [ant: {unreal}]
       3: presently existing in fact and not merely potential or
          possible; "the predicted temperature and the actual
          temperature were markedly different"; "actual and imagined
          conditions" [syn: {actual}] [ant: {potential}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "existent":
     aboveground, actual, alive, alive and kicking, among the living,
     animate, animated, around, as is, being, breathing,
     capable of life, conscious, contemporaneous, contemporary, current,
     endowed with life, enlivened, existence, existing, extant, fresh,
     immanent, immediate, in being, in effect, in existence, in force,
     in the flesh, individual, inspirited, instant, instinct with life,
     latest, live, living, long-lived, modern, new, on foot, present,
     present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, quick, running,
     something, subsistent, subsisting, tenacious of life, that be,
     that is, thing, topical, under the sun, up-to-date,
     up-to-the-minute, very much alive, viable, vital, vivified,
     zoetic