Exist

Quick meaning: Exist is a verb meaning (intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality.

Meaning

(intransitive, stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality.

Example Sentences

Various relationships may exist between character and glyph: […]

[…], regardless of whether those characters also existed in other character encoding standards.

Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other

[…], which will be treated either as an update of the existing character encoding or as a completely new character encoding.

Word Forms

• exists
• existing
• existed
• existest
• existedst
• existeth

Synonyms for exist

Depending on context, synonyms include be, consist, subsist, live, survive.

Antonyms for exist

Common opposites include cease, unexist, void.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include be, live, subsist, survive, existence, presence.

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