Scrabble & Words with friends points
- live is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- live is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- live is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9
Definition of live
- actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing (adjective)
Examples
- a live television program
- brought to you live from Lincoln Center
- live entertainment involves performers actually in the physical presence of a live audience
Synonyms
- unrecorded
- have life, be alive (verb)
Examples
- My grandfather lived until the end of war
Synonyms
- be
- capable of erupting (adjective)
Examples
- a live volcano
- the volcano is very much alive
Synonyms
- alive
- possessing life (adjective)
Examples
- the happiest person alive
- the nerve is alive
- doctors are working hard to keep him alive
- burned alive
- a live canary
Synonyms
- alive
- elastic; rebounds readily (adjective)
Examples
- a lively tennis ball
Synonyms
- bouncy
- lively
- resilient
- springy
- be an inhabitant of or reside in (verb)
Examples
- People lived in Africa millions of years ago
Synonyms
- dwell
- inhabit
- populate
- support oneself (verb)
Examples
- Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?
Synonyms
- exist
- subsist
- survive
- continue to live and avoid dying (verb)
Examples
- The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents
- One crash victim died, the other lived
Synonyms
- endure
- go
- hold out
- hold up
- last
- live on
- survive
- charged or energized with electricity (adjective)
Examples
- a live wire
Synonyms
- hot
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations (verb)
Examples
- I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict
- The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
- I lived through two divorces
Synonyms
- experience
- know
- abounding with life and energy (adjective)
Examples
- the club members are a really live bunch
- charged with an explosive (adjective)
Examples
- live ammunition
- a live bomb
- exerting force or containing energy (adjective)
Examples
- live coals
- tossed a live cigarette out the window
- got a shock from a live wire
- live ore is unmined ore
- a live bomb
- a live ball is one in play
- highly reverberant (adjective)
Examples
- a live concert hall
- in current use or ready for use (adjective)
Examples
- live copy is ready to be set in type or already set but not yet proofread
- lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style (verb)
Examples
- we had to live frugally after the war
- of current relevance (adjective)
Examples
- a live issue
- still a live option
- pursue a positive and satisfying existence (verb)
Examples
- You must accept yourself and others if you really want to live
See definition of live in Merriam Webster