“existent”

Definitions

• adjective

  having existence or being or actuality

  Synonyms: existing, aboveground, actual, alive, animate, animated, around, being, breathing, conscious, contemporaneous, contemporary

  Antonyms: nonexistent

  • Example:“an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient”
  • Example:“Much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran.”

• adjective

  being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

  Synonyms: real

  • Example:“real objects”
  • Example:“real people, not ghosts”

• adjective

  presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible

  Synonyms: actual

  • Example:“The predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different.”
  • Example:“actual and imagined conditions”