Overview of verb exist

The verb exist has 2 senses

• exist, be -- (have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?")


• exist, survive, live, subsist -- (support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day")

Overview of adj existing

The adj existing has 3 senses

• existing -- (presently existing; "the existing system")


• existent, existing -- (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")


• existing -- (existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream")