different between alive vs bodily

English

Etymology

From Middle English alive, alyve, alife, from Old English on l?fe (“in life”), equivalent to a- +? live.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??la?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Adjective

alive (comparative more alive, superlative most alive)

1. Having life; living; not dead
2. In a state of action; in force or operation; existent

3. Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
4. Sprightly; lively; brisk.
5. susceptible; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy
6. (as an intensifier) out of all living creatures.
7. (programming) Synonym of live

Usage notes

• Alive always follows the noun which it qualifies, for example "The bee is alive". Before a noun, the adjectives living or live may be used with a similar meaning

Synonyms

• (having life): alive and kicking, extant, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
• (in a state of action): existing, extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
• (sprightly, lively, brisk): frisky, peppy, zestful; see also Thesaurus:active
• (out of all living creatures): ever, in the world

Antonyms

• dead

Derived terms

Translations

References

alive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Leiva, alvei, avile

English

Etymology

body +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?b?d?li/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?b?d?li/
• Hyphenation: bod?i?ly
• Homophone: bawdily (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Adjective

bodily (comparative more bodily, superlative most bodily)

1. Of, relating to, or concerning the body.

2. Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal.
   • May 14, 1709, Isaac Bickerstaff (pseudonym for Richard Steele or (in some later numbers of the journal) Joseph Addison), The Tatler No. 15

3. Real; actual; put into execution.

Synonyms

• corporal
• corporeal

Translations

Adverb

bodily (not comparable)

1. In bodily form; physically, corporally.
2. Pertaining to the whole body or mass; wholly.
   • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:

     The papering of one side of the room had dropped down bodily, with fragments of plaster adhering to it, and almost blocked up the door.

3. Forcefully, vigorously.

   He was thrown bodily out of the house.

Synonyms

• bodyaciously (obsolete, dialect, rare)

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