adjective

1. Having existence or life: alive, around, existent, extant, living. See live/die.
2. In existence now: contemporary, current, existent, new, now, present¹, present-day. See time.

IN BRIEF: adj. - Having being or actuality; occurring in certain places or under certain conditions.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. — Buckminster Fuller 

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The adjective has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: having existence or being or actuality
  Synonym: existent

Meaning #2: existing in something specified

Meaning #3: presently existing

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