Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Full of life and energy; vigorous: a lively baby.
- adj. Full of spirit; gay and animated: a lively tune.
- adj. Marked by animated intelligence: a lively discussion.
- adj. Invigorating; refreshing.
- adj. Effervescent; sparkling.
- adj. Keen; brisk: gave the kitchen floor a lively sweeping.
- adj. Rebounding readily upon impact; resilient: a lively tennis ball. See Synonyms at active.
- adv. With energy or vigor; briskly: Step lively!
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Living; endowed with or manifesting life; hence, from a living source; life-given.
- Lifelike; representing or resembling life or reality; real; vivid; forcible: as, a lively imitation of nature.
- Full of life or energy; active; vigorous; vivacious; brisk; alert: applied to persons or things: as, a lively child; lively faith.
- Animated; spirited; sprightly; gay: as, a lively dance; lively conversation.
- Fresh; vivid; bright: said of colors and tints.
- Riding the sea buoyantly: said of a ship or boat.
- In a lifelike manner; with the appearance of reality; semblably.
- With life or animation; energetically; vigorously; briskly: as, to act lively.
- In golf, base-ball, and similar games, elastic: applied to a ball possessing special elasticity.
Wiktionary
- adv. obsolete In a lifelike manner; vibrantly, vividly.
- adj. Full of life; energetic.
- adj. of beer fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass
- n. nautical Term of address.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
- adj. Brisk; vivacious; active.
- adj. Gay; airy; animated; spirited.
- adj. obsolete Representing life; lifelike.
- adj. Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.
- adv. In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.
- adv. obsolete With strong resemblance of life.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. elastic; rebounds readily
- adj. filled with events or activity
- adj. full of spirit
- adj. quick and energetic
- adj. full of zest or vigor
- adj. full of life and energy
Etymologies
- 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)
- 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)
Examples
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“We expect the readers to rivet in lively, nonetheless polite discourse.”
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“New York, as well as certain lively streets in Manhattan.”
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“A movement to pardon Suharto has resulted in lively debate and protests from those who believe doing so would dishonor the dead murdered by his regime.”
“Al – Maamun by day and Khadijah by night; and, by Allah, never saw I among men the like of Al – Maamun nor among women have I ever set eyes on the like of Khadijah; no, nor on any that came near her in lively wit and pleasant speech!”
“To "Luke," who has added his voice here numerous times and engages in lively but civil discourse from the other side of the aisle.”
“And the impressively imagined world of the novel is tricked out in lively prose.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lively’.
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CULI - wine-tasting adjectives
In this area of expertise nouns are frequently used as adjectives (almond, bacon, cider, diesel, fennel, fresh-cut hay, wool) or new adjectives are formed (appley, berrylike, citrusy, full-bodied, ...
acetic, acidic, aged, angular, appley, astringent, attractive, austere, berrylike, big, bitter, brawny and 511 more...
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Fairylike
fairylike, enchanted, pixieish, pixyish, impish, mischievous, fluttery, magical, bewitching, enchanting, fey, otherworldly and 126 more...
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Cepstrums
to cepstrumize a word is to reverse its 1st 4 characters in the way that "cepstrum" was derived from "spectrum" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cepstrum...
acedy, adustion, sudation, aedility, ideality, agentive, negative, agral, argal, agrestic, ergastic, alerce and 202 more...
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Describing People
eye, hair, mouth, nose, tooth, head, face, arm, hand, finger, lip, leg and 212 more...
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position (dynamic)
( visual, descriptive, open list )
related:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/static (opposite list, antonyms)
more:charismatic, lively, animated, shifting, permeate, wobble, shimmer, sparkle, flex, pizzazz, chaos, fractal and 47 more...
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Happy
joyous, jovial, glad, merry, delightful, ecstatic, cheerful, euphoria, jolly, lively, upbeat, pleasant and 1 more...
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Lively Words
quick, quicksilver, cwic, quitch grass, cwice, vivify, viviparous, viper, weever, wyvern, viand, victual and 148 more...
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Rilakkuma's list
The Velvetine Ruffians
gamine, waif, ruffian, villain, rake, libertine, velvetine, luminary, nom de plume, street urchin, epicurean, eventide and 256 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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Ships
All of which are mentioned in O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels, someplace or other. Most are British navy ships, some are French navy, and others aren't either one.
See also the list Sh...franklin, surprise, agamemnon, vanguard, truelove, minerva, diane, victory, sophie, cacafuego, euryalus, alastor and 382 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2244 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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"A List of His MAJESTY's Ships and Ve...
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See the companion list, A LIST of the Men of War the French have left," 174...apollo, deptford, portsmouth, princess royal, scarborough, sutherland, william and mary, mary, fubbs, dublin, charlotte, catherine and 302 more...
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Things I Love About You
outgoing, intelligent, loyal, humorous, energetic, leader, playful, confident, extroverted, moral, hospitable, educated and 16 more...
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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