adjective. having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless. living (used for emphasis): the proudest man alive. in a state of action; in force or operation; active: to keep hope alive.

(intransitive) To be alive; to have life. (intransitive) To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. (intransitive, informal) To make the most of life; to experience a full rich life. …

active kept hope

If you’re alive, you’re living — in other words, you’re not dead. The word is often used to mean “spirited” or “full of energy,” too, as when a birthday party comes alive just as the magician and the pony arrive. Alive comes from the Old English phrase on life, “in living” or “in life.”

The most common answer to what’s up is “I am fine, thank you, what about you?” The person who is asking this is enquiring about your well being at that very moment. Life is good.

If someone asks “How are you doing?,” grammatically you should answer “Well.” This says “I’m doing well.” Since “doing” is an action verb, we need to use the adverb “well” to describe that action.

50 ways to respond to the question “how are you”.

• I’m good.
• I’m fine.
• Pretty good.
• I’m well.
• I’m OK.
• Not too bad.
• Just the same old same old.
• Yeah, all right.

: healthy and active She ran a marathon late in life, just to prove she was still alive and kicking. —often used figuratively After years of slow earnings, the industry is now alive and kicking.

This phrase is an informal way to say that you are alive and doing well. It is sometimes used ironically to imply that you are not doing so well, but, instead, you are hanging on and going forward. It can also be used after recovering from an illness; ‘kicking’ refers to the strength it took to overcome the illness.

Also, first of all. Most important, primarily; also, to begin with. For example, First and foremost, I want to thank our sponsors, or What we need, first and foremost, is a new secretary, or We have to deal, first of all, with the early history.

Alive, active (especially in the phrase alive and kicking) still kicking at 89.

dribbling noun [U] (MOVING BALL) the skill of moving a ball along the ground with repeated small kicks or hits, or (in basketball) of moving a ball by repeatedly hitting it so it bounces off the floor: He’s good at shooting, passing, and dribbling.

1a : a blow or sudden forceful thrust with the foot specifically : a sudden propelling of a ball with the foot. b : the power to kick. c : a rhythmic motion of the legs used in swimming. d : a burst of speed in racing. 2 : a sudden forceful jolt or thrust suggesting a kick especially : the recoil of a gun.

The first expression, sometimes shortened to live and kicking, originally was used by fishmongers hawking their wares to convince customers of their freshness and has been considered a cliché since about 1850. The variant originated in the 1960s as a denial of someone’s reported death.

Eager to hear something, listening attentively, as in Tell me who else was invited? I’m all ears.

That’s Greek to me or it’s (all) Greek to me is an idiom in English referring to an expression that is difficult to understand for the sayer. It is commonly a complex or imprecise verbal or written expression or diagram, often containing excessive use of jargon, dialect, mathematics, science, or symbols.

how much you value or want something is decided by how big it is: He likes getting big presents – the bigger the better as far as he’s concerned. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.

magnanimity Add to list Share. Magnanimous behavior is noble, generous, or unselfish, and to exhibit magnanimity is to be this way. Magnanimity is the generous greatness of spirit. When you are being the bigger person, you are behaving with magnanimity.

The Irish love a party, the bigger the better. The fewer things in the room the better.

Freddie Mercury

There is a Taoist saying ‘The bigger the front the bigger the back’. It speaks of the puff and blow, smoke and mirrors; of people, notions, brands, and ideas. The bigger the puff and blow, the larger the empty area at the back. This speaks of the substance, truth, transparency.

Definitions of bigger. adjective. large or big relative to something else. synonyms: larger big, large. above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.

“better” is a comparative form of “good”, so you do not need to (and should not) say “more better”: say either: It is better than your book. It is far better than your book. Using “more better” is against normal grammar, and if it is used it is uneducated and substandard.

“More correct” is acceptable (especially in the adverbial form “More correctly”). That said, you will usually see “More accurate” instead. “More correct” is certainly used when talking of forms of address.

Yes, “more better” is a grammar mistake. English adjectives can take on different forms: regular, comparative, or superlative. When we use the comparative form (“more” before an adjective or “er” appended to the end of an adjective), we can only use “more” or the word ending in “er,” but not both.

When something is “better”, it is always just “better” and never “more better”: correct My car is better than yours. wrong My car is more better than yours. It would make sense, syntactically, to say that if “A and B are better than C”, and “A is better than B”, then “A is more better than C than B”.

In some lucky languages, the more negatives the better. In English, however, two negatives are a no-no. Some double negatives are obvious, but here you learn about some of the sneaky double-negatives that might be waiting to trip you up.

It is not incorrect to say that something is way better or that you have way more of something, but it is not formal. It has also been in adverbial use for long enough that 80 year olds should accept it.

So a big distinction between the two expressions is this: different from typically requires a noun or noun form to complete the expression, while different than may be followed by a clause. New Fowler says that both different from and different than have flourished in America.