Living and Working

Living

Living adjective - Being in effective operation.
Usage example: a living culture that has survived a number of foreign invasions

Working and living are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Working" instead an adjective "Living".

Nearby Words: live, lived, livable

Working

Working adjective - Being in effective operation.
Usage example: the only working coal mine in the area

Living and working are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Living" instead an adjective "Working".

Nearby Words: work, works, worked, workable, worker

How words are described

human human living human working
old old living old working
good good living good working
female female living female working
Other adjectives: high, nice, better, normal, native, actual, real, hard, big, main, continued, former, underground, different, giant.

Both words in one sentence

  • Intimidating Revenue Service He has been living and working in the US for a while now and he has been paying taxes to the US government instead.
  • The catch is that most normal people have trouble adjusting to the stresses of working and living in such an environment, so people who are naturally adapted to living in stressful environments are recruited instead.
  • Settings Haunted Headquarters A spooky place where there be monsters, and you're stuck living or working there.
    Source: Settings
Cite this Source
Working and Living. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 12, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/living/working
Living & Working. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/living/working>.
Working or Living. 2016. Accessed August 12, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/living/working.
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