Usually means: Existing with the bare minimum.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word subsistent:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. subsistent: Merriam-Webster
  2. subsistent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. subsistent: Collins English Dictionary
  4. subsistent: Wordnik
  5. subsistent: Wiktionary
  6. subsistent: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. subsistent: Dictionary.com
  8. Subsistent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. subsistent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Subsistent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. subsistent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. subsistent: FreeDictionary.org
  13. Subsistent: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subsistent: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. subsistent: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (subsistent)

▸ adjective:  Actually existing.
▸ adjective:  Inherent.

Similar:
essential, in existence, substantial, beingly, actual, live, existing, existent, existible, substantive, more...

Opposite:
insubstantial, non-existent, ephemeral, intangible

Types:
being, entity, object, substance, thing, more...

Phrases:
self subsistent, more...

Adjectives:
self, distinct, own, single, timeless, intellectual, human, universal, eternal, absolute

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Similar:
essential, in existence, substantial, beingly, actual, live, existing, existent, existible, substantive, more...

Opposite:
insubstantial, non-existent, ephemeral, intangible

Types:
being, entity, object, substance, thing, more...

Phrases:
self subsistent, more...

Adjectives:
self, distinct, own, single, timeless, intellectual, human, universal, eternal, absolute



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