Definition for Subsistence:

• a means of surviving; " farming is a hard means of subsistence"

Synonyms for Subsistence:

• n.

  •
  • circumstances,
  • property,
  • earnings,
  • fortune,
  • gratuity,
  • salary,
  • pension,
  • affluence,
  • legacy,
  • Resources,
  • riches,
  • substance,
  • wealth,
  • capital,
  • means,
  • independence,
  • money.
  •being (noun)
  • animation,
  • reality.
  •bread (noun)
  • comestibles,
  • provisions,
  • fare,
  • provender,
  • bed and board,
  • feed,
  • viands,
  • nourishment,
  • staff of life,
  • nutriment,
  • grub.
  •diet (noun)
  • commons,
  • rations.
  •dole (noun)
  • allotment,
  • benefit.
  •entity (noun)
  • essence,
  • being,
  • thing.
  •existence (noun)
  • survival,
  • endurance,
  • occurrence,
  • existence,
  • continuance,
  • continuation.
  •food (noun)
  • eats,
  • board,
  • cheer,
  • pap,
  • chow,
  • pabulum,
  • food.
  •life (noun)
  • substantiality.
  •living (noun)
  • sustainment,
  • sustentation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • peanuts,
  • competence,
  • sou,
  • nutrition,
  • alimentation,
  • bread and butter.
  •
  • niggardly.
  •
  • support.
  •Other relevant words:
  • regimen,
  • impoverished,
  • frugal,
  • finances,
  • parsimonious,
  • incompetence,
  • poor,
  • limited,
  • existing,
  • indwell,
  • deficiency,
  • preservation,
  • imperfection,
  • meager,
  • scant,
  • abstemious,
  • scoff,
  • stint,
  • wages,
  • Dwarfed,
  • room and board,
  • funding,
  • freewheeling,
  • manna,
  • social security,
  • contribution,
  • Mothering,
  • dwell,
  • impotence,
  • ration,
  • scrimpy,
  • running,
  • straitened,
  • provision,
  • patronage,
  • fodder,
  • assistance,
  • hold out,
  • keep,
  • survive,
  • intake,
  • corn,
  • smallness,
  • slender,
  • inherence,
  • energy,
  • aliment,
  • scrimp,
  • old-age pension,
  • inhabit,
  • mean,
  • paucity,
  • price support,
  • incompleteness,
  • comfort,
  • commissariat,
  • endure,
  • narrow,
  • miserly,
  • lodgings,
  • conservation,
  • inadequateness,
  • materiality,
  • float,
  • insufficiency,
  • endowment,
  • allowance,
  • operation,
  • forage,
  • spare,
  • abide,
  • experience,
  • Ens,
  • pasture,
  • Stinted,
  • prop,
  • bed,
  • golden handshake,
  • corporeality,
  • small,
  • scantiness,
  • scanty,
  • hold up,
  • inhere,
  • lean,
  • foodstuffs,
  • slim,
  • tender loving care,
  • Necessities,
  • jejune,
  • head,
  • ESSE,
  • sparing,
  • prey,
  • Inexistence,
  • go on,
  • subsist,
  • spartan,
  • victuals,
  • subsidization,
  • annuity,
  • wherewithal,
  • hold good,
  • ascetic,
  • subsidy,
  • hypostasis,
  • repair,
  • dwarfish,
  • skimp,
  • expenses,
  • continuity,
  • care,
  • hold,
  • persistence,
  • Facilities,
  • thin,
  • slight,
  • Corporality,
  • Unnutritious,
  • stipend,
  • economic support,
  • paltry,
  • superannuation,
  • austere,
  • exist,
  • pasturage,
  • scrawny,
  • dietary,
  • skimpy,
  • accommodations,
  • boost,
  • nutriments,
  • exiguous,
  • watery,
  • inadequacy,
  • subvention,
  • puny,
  • Subsisting,
  • Prog,
  • stingy,
  • go,
  • aid,
  • starvation,
  • stunted,
  • freewheel,
  • salt,
  • watered,
  • shortcoming,
  • knock about.

Paraphrases for Subsistence:

• Independent

  • Adjective
    cost-of-living.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    nourishment, self-reliance, cost-of-living, DIEM, accomodation, persistence, support, DSA, diet, harvesting, substance, survivability.
  • Verb, past tense
    Lived, spent, Went, living.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    continuing, remaining, coping, living.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    Lives.
  • Verb, base form
    support.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    sustenance, life-sustaining, livelihood, Life-saving, living, residence.
  • Proper noun, singular
    sustenance, livelihood, livelihoods, living, residence.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    needs, survival, sustenance, self-sufficiency, existence, livelihood, allowance, living, residence, upkeep, stipend.
  • Verb, past tense
    Visited.
  • Verb, base form
    subsist, sustain.

Antonyms for Subsistence:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    want, expiration, cutback, unreality, finish, end, dearth, termination, nonexistence, close, surcease, potentiality, curtailment, lack, shortening, absence, discontinuity, Virtuality, stoppage, discontinuance, nonbeing, cessation, Inexistence, ending, abridgment, nothingness.

Hyponym for Subsistence:

• n.

  • possession
    sustenance, livelihood, support, living, bread and butter, keep.
  • state
    face of the earth, endurance, survival, existence, being, beingness.