EXISTENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does existent mean? 

• EXISTENT (adjective)
  The adjective EXISTENT has 3 senses:

1. having existence or being or actuality

2. being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

3. presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible

  Familiarity information: EXISTENT used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXISTENT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having existence or being or actuality

Synonyms:

existent; existing

Context example:

much of the beluga caviar existing in the world is found in the Soviet Union and Iran

Similar:

active; alive (in operation)

Also:

extant (still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost)

Attribute:

being; beingness; existence; face of the earth (the state or fact of existing)

Antonym:

nonexistent (not having existence or being or actuality)

Derivation:

exist (have an existence, be extant)

existence (the state or fact of existing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory

Synonyms:

existent; real

Context example:

Life is real! Life is earnest!

Similar:

actual (taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated)

actual; factual (existing in act or fact)

documentary ((of film, television, radio, or photography) depicting a real-life event using images or interviews with people involved in the event)

objective (emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation)

historical (having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary)

Also:

concrete (capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary)

echt; genuine (not fake or counterfeit)

realistic (aware or expressing awareness of things as they really are)

sincere (open and genuine; not deceitful)

Attribute:

realism; reality; realness (the state of being actual or real)

Derivation:

exist (have an existence, be extant)

existence (the state or fact of existing)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible

Synonyms:

actual; existent

Context example:

actual and imagined conditions

Similar:

effective (existing in fact; not theoretical; real)

Attribute:

actuality (the state of actually existing objectively)

Derivation:

exist (have an existence, be extant)

existence (the state or fact of existing)

 Context examples 

The necessary regulation is still in its infancy (or non-existent), and the first fatal accidents associated with their use have already been reported.

(Scientists design “smart” asphalts with magnetic materials for safer electric scooters, University of Granada)

Even now, when I am gravely revolving the matter, it is almost impossible to realise that the cause of all our trouble is still existent.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Each symptom is rated on a scale of 1-7 or 1-9 with 1 being non-existent and 7 being very severe; 9 represents 'can not be assessed'.

(Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale A Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil—if evil existent or prospective there was—seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I do not feel warranted in soliciting my former friend Mr. Copperfield, or my former friend Mr. Thomas Traddles of the Inner Temple, if that gentleman is still existent and forthcoming, to condescend to meet me, and renew (so far as may be) our past relations of the olden time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

By this time I had searched all the tombs in the chapel, so far as I could tell; and as there had been only three of these Un-Dead phantoms around us in the night, I took it that there were no more of active Un-Dead existent.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those round Lowood, nor so craggy, nor so like barriers of separation from the living world; but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)