Lively

Quick meaning: Lively is an adjective meaning Full of life; energetic, vivacious.

Meaning

Full of life; energetic, vivacious.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

I spied the lively picture of my father.

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

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

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

Word Forms

• livelier
• liveliest
• livelies

Synonyms for lively

Depending on context, synonyms include high-spirited, frisky, peppy, intense, smart, extant.

Antonyms for lively

Common opposites include dull.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include animated, zippy, rattling, bouncing, peppy, spirited.

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