[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

existent \exist"ent\, a. l. existens, -entis, p. pr. of
   existere. see exist.
   having being or existence; existing; being; occurring now;
   taking place.
   1913 webster

         the eyes and mind are fastened on objects which have no
         real being, as if they were truly existent. --dryden.
   1913 webster
see also:
exist 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

existent
     adj 1: having existence or being or actuality; "an attempt to
            refine the existent machinery to make it more
            efficient"; "much of the beluga caviar existing in the
            world is found in the soviet union and iran" syn: existing
            ant: nonexistent
     2: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified
        existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not
        ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness";
        "real humility"; "life is real life is earnest"-
        longfellow syn: real ant: unreal
     3: presently existing in fact and not merely potential or
        possible; "the predicted temperature and the actual
        temperature were markedly different"; "actual and imagined
        conditions" syn: actual ant: potential
see also:
existing nonexistent real unreal actual potential 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

63 moby thesaurus words for "existent":
   aboveground, actual, alive, alive and kicking, among the living,
   animate, animated, around, as is, being, breathing,
   capable of life, conscious, contemporaneous, contemporary, current,
   endowed with life, enlivened, existence, existing, extant, fresh,
   immanent, immediate, in being, in effect, in existence, in force,
   in the flesh, individual, inspirited, instant, instinct with life,
   latest, live, living, long-lived, modern, new, on foot, present,
   present-age, present-day, present-time, prevalent, quick, running,
   something, subsistent, subsisting, tenacious of life, that be,
   that is, thing, topical, under the sun, up-to-date,
   up-to-the-minute, very much alive, viable, vital, vivified,
   zoetic

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