Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of exist
- not comparableThat exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
In his favour, Beeching declared that he supported carrying on with the existing modernisation projects, but that the rest of the business needed root and branch reform.
2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 521 more example
Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.
2013 July 20, “The attack of the MOOCs”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845Synonyms: NDR is the percentage of recurring revenue from existing customers., Existing legislation is inadequate to cover these cases., existent
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveThat exists, or has existence, especially that exists now.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivepresently existing
adjectiveexisting in something specified
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Arabic مَوْجُود
- مَوْجُود (mawjūd)that exists
Catalan existent
- existentthat exists
Chinese Mandarin 現有 /现有, 現存 /现存
- 現有 /现有 (xiànyǒu)that exists
- 現存 /现存 (xiàncún)that exists
Czech existující
- existujícíthat exists
Danish eksisterende
- eksisterendethat exists
Dutch bestaande
- bestaandethat exists
Esperanto efektiva
- efektivathat exists
Estonian olemasolev
- olemasolevthat exists
Finnish olemassa oleva
- olemassa olevathat exists
French existant
- existantthat exists
German bestehend, existierend
- bestehendthat exists
- existierendthat exists
Greek υπάρχων
- υπάρχων (ypárchon)that exists
Hungarian létező, meglévő
- létezőthat exists
- meglévőthat exists
- meglevőthat exists
Indonesian adanya
- adanyathat exists
Italian esistente
- esistentethat exists
Japanese 現在の
- 現在の (genzai no)that exists
Māori tīariari
- tīariarithat exists
Norwegian Bokmål eksisterende
- eksisterendethat exists
Polish istniejący
- istniejącythat exists
Portuguese existente
- existentethat exists
Romanian existent
- existentthat exists
Russian существу́ющий
- существу́ющий (suščestvújuščij)that exists
Slovak existujúci
- existujúcithat exists
Spanish existente
- existentethat exists
Turkish mevcut, varolan
- mevcutthat exists
- varolanthat exists
Ukrainian існу́ючий
- існу́ючий (isnújučyj)that exists
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with existing
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existing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/existing
“existing.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/existing. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “existing,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/existing.
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