EXISTING

existent, existing

(adjective) 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”

existing

(adjective) presently existing; “the existing system”

existing

(adjective) existing in something specified; “depletion of the oxygen existing in the bloodstream”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Verb

existing

present participle of exist

Adjective

existing (not comparable)

That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.

Synonyms

• existent; See also existent

Anagrams

• exitings

Source: Wiktionary

EXIST

Ex*ist", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Existed; p. pr. & vb. n. Existing.] Etym: [L. existere, exsistere, to step out or forth, emerge, appear, exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand still, fr. stare to stand: cf. F. exister. See Stand.]

1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift. To conceive the world . . . to have existed from eternity. South.

2. To be manifest in any manner; to continue to be; as, great evils existed in his reign.

3. To live; to have life or the functions of vitality; as, men can not exist water, nor fishes on land.

Syn.

– See Be.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition