existing

Adjective
Synonyms: existent

WordNet 3.0

Adjective (3)

  1. presently existing“the existing system”
  2. 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”Synonyms: existent
  3. existing in something specified“depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream”
Advertisement

Webster's Dictionary (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]

existing \existing\ adj.

1.having existence or being or actuality; as, much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran. Opposite of nonexistent. [Narrower terms: active, alive; extant, surviving] Also See: extant.

Syn: existent. [WordNet 1.5]

2.Present. Opposite of absent. [WordNet 1.5]

3.Presently existing; as, the existing system. [WordNet 1.5]

Advertisement