Synonyms:
existing
Meaning: presently existing; "the existing system"
Synonyms:
existent, existing
Meaning: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to refine the existent machinery to make it more efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran"
Synonyms:
existing
Meaning: existing in something specified; "depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream"
Usage examples
Are they good or evil, for they are existing beings?
Wealth is an existing thing, but poverty is nonexisting.
Light is an existing thing, but darkness is nonexistent.
And yet, somehow, I could never think of her as existing outside of Cypher's.
The priests systematized existing folk beliefs and established an official religion.
Let me see that I excite the sympathy of some existing thing; do not deny me my request!"
Many of our existing social activities, industrial and political, fall in these two classes.
Existing war between Mexico and the United States was keeping California in a disturbed condition.
It is a core in our actual experiences, never existing in isolation except possibly in very young infants.
What was called social life, existing institutions, were too false and corrupt to be intrusted with this work.