Living vs. Creature

Livingadjective

Having life.

Creaturenoun

A living being; an animal or a human.

‘He's a creature of habit.’; ‘insects and other creatures’;

Livingadjective

In use or existing.

‘Hunanese is a living language.’;

Creaturenoun

A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.

Livingadjective

Of everyday life.

‘These living conditions are deplorable.’;

Creaturenoun

A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

Livingadjective

True to life.

‘This is the living image of Fidel Castro.’;

Creaturenoun

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

‘He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him.’; ‘God's first creature was light.’; ‘On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extolHim first, him last, him midst, and without end.’; ‘And most attractive is the fair resultOf thought, the creature of a polished mind.’;

Livingadjective

Used as an intensifier.

‘He almost beat the living daylights out of me.’;

Creaturenoun

A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

‘The world hath not a sweeter creature.’;

Livingnoun

(uncountable) The state of being alive.

Creaturenoun

A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

‘A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.’; ‘Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.’;

Livingnoun

Those who are alive.

‘Respect for the dead does not preclude respect for the living.’;

Creaturenoun

A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.

Livingnoun

Financial means; a means of maintaining life; livelihood

‘What do you do for a living?’;

Creaturenoun

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Livingnoun

A style of life.

‘plain living’;

Creaturenoun

a human being; `wight' is an archaic term

Livingnoun

(canon law) A position in a church (usually the Church of England) that has attached to it a source of income; an ecclesiastical benefice.

Creaturenoun

a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

Livingadjective

Being alive; having life; as, a living creature. Opposed to dead.

Livingadjective

Active; lively; vigorous; - said esp. of states of the mind, and sometimes of abstract things; as, a living faith; a living principle.

Livingadjective

Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; - opposed to stagnant.

Livingadjective

Producing life, action, animation, or vigor; quickening.

Livingadjective

Ignited; glowing with heat; burning; live.

‘Then on the living coals wine they pour.’;

Livingnoun

The state of one who, or that which, lives; lives; life; existence.

Livingnoun

Manner of life; as, riotous living; penurious living; earnest living.

Livingnoun

Means of subsistence; sustenance; estate; as, to make a comfortable living from writing.

‘She can spin for her living.’; ‘He divided unto them his living.’;

Livingnoun

Power of continuing life; the act of living, or living comfortably.

‘There is no living without trusting somebody or other in some cases.’;

Livingnoun

The benefice of a clergyman; an ecclesiastical charge which a minister receives.

‘He could not get a deanery, a prebend, or even a living’;

Livingnoun

the experience of living; the course of human events and activities;

‘he could no longer cope with the complexities of life’;

Livingnoun

people who are still living;

‘save your pity for the living’;

Livingnoun

the condition of living or the state of being alive;

‘while there's life there's hope’; ‘life depends on many chemical and physical processes’;

Livingnoun

the financial means whereby one lives;

‘each child was expected to pay for their keep’; ‘he applied to the state for support’; ‘he could no longer earn his own livelihood’;

Livingadjective

pertaining to living persons;

‘within living memory’;

Livingadjective

true to life; lifelike;

‘the living image of her mother’;

Livingadjective

dwelling or inhabiting; often used in combination;

‘living quarters’; ‘tree-living animals’;

Livingadjective

(informal) absolute;

‘she is a living doll’; ‘scared the living daylights out of them’; ‘beat the living hell out of him’;

Livingadjective

still in existence;

‘the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil’; ‘the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania’;

Livingadjective

still in active use;

‘a living language’;

Livingadjective

(used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried;

‘carved into the living stone’;