- Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. - Active; lively; vigorous; -- said esp. of states of the
mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living
principle. - Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing;
as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant. - Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening. - Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.