Meaning & Definition of Existent in English

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"

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

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"