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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. having existence or being or actuality;
- Example: "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"
- Example: "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
[syn: existent, existing]

2. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory;
- Example: "real objects"
- Example: "real people not ghosts";
- Example: "a film based on real life"
- Example: "a real illness"
- Example: "real humility"
- Example: "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow
[syn: real, existent]

3. presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible;
- Example: "the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different"
- Example: "actual and imagined conditions"
[syn: actual, existent]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Existent \Ex*ist"ent\, a. [L. existens, -entis, p. pr. of
   existere. See Exist.]
   Having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now;
   taking place.
   [1913 Webster]

         The eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no
         real being, as if they were truly existent. --Dryden.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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: existent,
           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, existent] [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, existent] [ant: possible,
       potential]