Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

life-giving

/lˈaɪfɡˌɪvɪŋ/

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.08 in modern English

Syllables: life--giv-ing
IPA: /lˈaɪfɡˌɪvɪŋ/

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Necessary for life.

adj

Creating or engendering life; being a source of life.

noun

The act of giving life, of creating beings or fostering their survival.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"We would have died without the unexpected rain that brought life-giving water."
"The FDA has "blood on its hands" in its devastatingly slow release of potentially life-giving drugs to people surviving with AIDS and ARC."
"Her days were taken up with the life-giving, hard, unrecompensed work of women of all ages to feed, clothe and nurture her household."
"The systematic, violent overthrow of an ethos of lifegiving by one that placed higher value on the taking of life culminated in the destruction of the Minoan civilization of Crete some four millenia ^([sic]) later."

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

more life-giving (comparative) most life-giving (superlative)

Phrases

life-giver

Frequently Paired Words

life-giver

Synonyms

vitalizing

Questions

How do you pronounce life-giving?: The recorded pronunciation is /lˈaɪfɡˌɪvɪŋ/.
What does life-giving mean?: Necessary for life.

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