Thesaurus:exist
English
Verb
Sense: to have being or reality
Synonyms
- be
- be a thing (colloquial)
- consist
- exist
Antonyms
Hyponyms
- breathe [⇒ thesaurus]
- live
- subsist
- —
- happen [⇒ thesaurus]
- occur
- —
- be the case
- obtain
- —
- appear [⇒ thesaurus]
- arise
- come into being [⇒ thesaurus]
- emerge
- pop up (idiomatic)
- spring to life
- surface
- —
- bring forth
- create [⇒ thesaurus]
- forthbring (obsolete)
- generate
- innate [⇒ thesaurus]
- produce
- —
- abide
- continue
- endure
- last
- persist [⇒ thesaurus]
- prevail
- remain [⇒ thesaurus]
- stand
- stay
- survive
- —
- reappear
- respawn (video games)
- resume
- —
- coexist
- perdure (philosophy)
- postexist
- preexist
See also
Further reading
- “1. existence” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “exist” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.