Healthy, vigorous, well. Chiefly paired with alive or living. Cf. alive-like, adj. Now rare (Scottish and Irish English (northern) in later use).

Having the qualities essential to life; capable of living; = viable, adj.1 Obsolete.

Likely to live. Obsolete. rare.

Capable of maintaining subsistence, able to be subsisted on; (also) able to subsist.

Possessing or exhibiting tenacity of life; difficult to kill or destroy. rare.

Capable of living; able to maintain a separate existence. Of children at (normal or premature) birth.

Capable of surviving.