Definition for Subsistence:

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

Synonyms for Subsistence:

• n.

  •
  • Resources,
  • affluence,
  • dowry,
  • money,
  • means,
  • a red cent,
  • substance,
  • salary,
  • not go far,
  • riches,
  • wealth,
  • fortune,
  • earnings,
  • penury,
  • legacy,
  • property,
  • poverty,
  • gratuity,
  • funds,
  • capital,
  • pension,
  • independence,
  • penniless,
  • circumstances.
  •alimony (noun)
  • subsistence,
  • remittance,
  • Remittances.
  •being (noun)
  • vitality,
  • reality,
  • actuality,
  • journey,
  • animation.
  •bread (noun)
  • comestibles,
  • shingle,
  • bed and board,
  • shingles,
  • nutriment,
  • feed,
  • provender,
  • staff of life,
  • nourishment,
  • provisions,
  • fare,
  • viands,
  • grub.
  •diet (noun)
  • goodies,
  • menu,
  • rations,
  • snack,
  • bite,
  • commons.
  •dole (noun)
  • relief,
  • grant,
  • charity,
  • gift,
  • share,
  • distribution,
  • division,
  • benefit,
  • quota,
  • alms,
  • dispensation,
  • allotment,
  • handout,
  • apportionment,
  • living wage,
  • donation,
  • trifle,
  • portion,
  • parcel.
  •entity (noun)
  • organisms,
  • single,
  • system,
  • being,
  • quiddity,
  • singles,
  • essence,
  • quintessence,
  • matter,
  • item,
  • quantity,
  • singleton,
  • body,
  • integral,
  • stuff,
  • individual,
  • thing,
  • creature,
  • integrate,
  • sum,
  • Quiddities,
  • something,
  • integrals,
  • totality,
  • singletons,
  • material,
  • organism,
  • article.
  •existence (noun)
  • lifing,
  • continuation,
  • occurrence,
  • endurance,
  • rat race,
  • hand one is dealt,
  • perseverance,
  • continuance,
  • survival,
  • real world,
  • individuality,
  • permanence,
  • breath,
  • existence,
  • the big game,
  • duration.
  •food (noun)
  • table,
  • fast food,
  • slop,
  • cuisine,
  • victual,
  • board,
  • take out,
  • refreshment,
  • cheer,
  • Groceries,
  • store,
  • larder,
  • pabulum,
  • tuck,
  • foodstuff,
  • pap,
  • comestible,
  • meals,
  • cookery,
  • chow,
  • moveable feast,
  • cooking,
  • vittles,
  • Foods,
  • viand,
  • home cooking,
  • cookeries,
  • food,
  • meal,
  • eatable,
  • drink,
  • eats,
  • grit.
  •pap (noun)
  • Esculent.
  •presence (noun)
  • Inhabitance,
  • omnipresence,
  • ubiety,
  • ubiquity.
  •subsistence (noun)
  • wherewithal,
  • wages,
  • victuals,
  • Necessities,
  • keep,
  • aliment,
  • salt,
  • provision,
  • ration.
  •upkeep (noun)
  • out lay.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • sou,
  • pittance,
  • pin money,
  • peanuts,
  • bread and butter,
  • alimentation,
  • nutrition,
  • chicken feed,
  • competence.
  •
  • nominal,
  • niggardly,
  • pocket money.
  •
  • nothing,
  • support.

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.

Subsistence Sentence Examples:

• Many deserted, and others scattered over the country in search of subsistence.

• To effect such rapid marches, it was necessary that the soldiery should make up their minds to consider tents and baggage as idle luxuries; and that, instead of a long and complicated chain of reserves and stores, they should dare to rely wholly for the means of subsistence on the resources of the countries into which their leader might conduct them.

Hyponym for Subsistence:

• n.

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