surviving
Making it through
Surviving means continuing to live or exist, especially after facing danger, hardship, or the passage of time.
A surviving spouse outlives their partner.
The surviving members of a band are those still alive.
Surviving documents from an era are those that weren't lost or destroyed.
The word often implies endurance through difficulty: surviving on little sleep, barely surviving the workweek.
Having current existence
- breathingPulmonary gas exchange
- livingCurrently having breath
- extantStill in existence
- existentCurrently real
viable · animate · vital · subsisting · staying alive · not dead · still standing · pulling through
Persisting beyond another's end
- persistingContinuing through difficulty
- lastingContinuing through time
- remainingStill present after removal
- withstandingTolerating force or hardship
weathering · continuing · prevailing · holding on · abiding · outliving · toughing out · bearing up
Flight from captivity
- rescueSave from harm
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- shelterProtected place or structure
- reliefEasing of distress
recovery · safety · aid · provision · ration · sanctuary · emergency · disaster
Able to endure difficulty
- toughDurable and strong
- robustStrong and durable
- durableAble to withstand use
- tenaciousStubbornly determined to continue
adaptable · resilient · strong-willed · steadfast · rugged · unbreakable · bouncing back · recovering
alive
Having current existence
existent · viable · animate · vital · subsisting · staying alive · not dead · still standing · pulling through · making it
outlasting
Persisting beyond another's end
- persistingContinuing through difficulty
- lastingContinuing through time
- remainingStill present after removal
withstanding · weathering · continuing · prevailing · holding on · abiding · outliving · toughing out · bearing up · carrying on
escape
Flight from captivity
- rescueSave from harm
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- shelterProtected place or structure
relief · recovery · safety · aid · provision · ration · sanctuary · emergency · disaster · catastrophe
hardy
Able to endure difficulty
tenacious · adaptable · resilient · strong-willed · steadfast · rugged · unbreakable · bouncing back · recovering · flexible
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- life experiencesgraduation, heartbreak, travel, parenthood, falling in love
- states of beingalive, dead, living, existing, conscious
- wealth statuspoor, rich, wealthy, affluent, middle-class
- life statusalive, dead, deceased, living, dying
- mental healthpsychiatry, psychotherapy, mental illness, psychiatrist, therapist
survivingsuccumbing
Ceasing to resist
perishing · yielding · failing · dying · collapsing
- surviving spousePartner after death
- just surviving