Lively

/ˈlaɪv.li/ · adjective

Meaning

Full of life; energetic, vivacious..

Definitions by Sense

1. Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
2. Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
3. (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
4. (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
5. (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
6. (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
7. (nautical, informal) Term of address.
8. Vigorously.

Example Sentences

But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haſt, / With youthful ſteps? much livelier then e're while / He ſeems.

[...] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of railway viaducts, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

Since sick people were apt to be present, he could not always depend on a lively young crowd in the same ward with him, and the entertainment was not always good.

But with the lively [Giovani] Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers [Roman] Pavlyuchenko and [Jermain] Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.

The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.

His faith must be not only living, but lively too.

c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves

I spied the lively picture of my father.

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Word Forms

• livelier
• liveliest
• lifely
• livelies
• more lively
• most lively

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