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livest

livest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of live.

livest is the superlative form of live.

Meaning of live

Verb

live (third-person singular simple present lives, present participle living, simple past and past participle lived)

  1. (intransitive) To be alive; to have life.
    • He's not expected to live for more than a few months.
  2. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside.
    • I live at 2a Acacia Avenue. At that time I'd been living in a camper for about six months.
    Synonyms:
    range
    1. (informal, intransitive) (of an object) to have its proper place; to normally be stored.
      • I washed your gravy boat. Where does it live?
  3. (intransitive) To survive; to persevere; to continue.
    • When Lazarus left his charnel-cave,
      ⁠And home to Mary’s house return’d, […]
      ‘Where wert thou, brother, those four days?’
      ⁠There lives no record of reply,
      ⁠Which telling what it is to die
      Had surely added praise to praise.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 50
    Synonyms:
    go on
  4. (intransitive) To endure in memory; to escape oblivion.
    • Her memory lives in that song.
  5. (excessive, intransitive) To cope.
    • You'll just have to live with it! I can't live in a world without you.

See all 38 meanings of live

Forms of livest

alternative formliv'st

Origin of livest

From live + -est.

Questions about livest

What is livest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Livest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of live.

Words near livest in the dictionary

  1. livescans
  2. LiveScript
  3. Livesey
  4. Liveseys
  5. livesome
  6. livest
  7. livestock
  8. livestock car
  9. livestock crush
  10. livestock crushes
  11. livestock unit

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