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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Full of life and energy; vigorous: a lively baby.
  2. adj. Full of spirit; gay and animated: a lively tune.
  3. adj. Marked by animated intelligence: a lively discussion.
  4. adj. Invigorating; refreshing.
  5. adj. Effervescent; sparkling.
  6. adj. Keen; brisk: gave the kitchen floor a lively sweeping.
  7. adj. Rebounding readily upon impact; resilient: a lively tennis ball. See Synonyms at active.
  8. adv. With energy or vigor; briskly: Step lively!

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Living; endowed with or manifesting life; hence, from a living source; life-given.
  2. Lifelike; representing or resembling life or reality; real; vivid; forcible: as, a lively imitation of nature.
  3. Full of life or energy; active; vigorous; vivacious; brisk; alert: applied to persons or things: as, a lively child; lively faith.
  4. Animated; spirited; sprightly; gay: as, a lively dance; lively conversation.
  5. Fresh; vivid; bright: said of colors and tints.
  6. Riding the sea buoyantly: said of a ship or boat.
  7. In a lifelike manner; with the appearance of reality; semblably.
  8. With life or animation; energetically; vigorously; briskly: as, to act lively.
  9. In golf, base-ball, and similar games, elastic: applied to a ball possessing special elasticity.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. obsolete In a lifelike manner; vibrantly, vividly.
  2. adj. Full of life; energetic.
  3. adj. of beer fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass
  4. n. nautical Term of address.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
  2. adj. Brisk; vivacious; active.
  3. adj. Gay; airy; animated; spirited.
  4. adj. obsolete Representing life; lifelike.
  5. adj. Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.
  6. adv. In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.
  7. adv. obsolete With strong resemblance of life.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. elastic; rebounds readily
  2. adj. filled with events or activity
  3. adj. full of spirit
  4. adj. quick and energetic
  5. adj. full of zest or vigor
  6. adj. full of life and energy

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ ("living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital"), equivalent to life +‎ -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely ("of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English lifli, from Old English līflīc, from līf, life; see leip- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • onursaka lively is not an adverb according to manhattan gmat. use in a lively manner. it is an adjective. Jan 27, 2012

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