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Lively

adjective

(compar. livelier; superl. liveliest)

Full of life and energy. "Lively and attractive parents" , "A lively party"

Full of zest or vigor. Synonym: racy.

Quick and energetic. Synonyms: alert, brisk, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy. "A lively gait" , "A merry chase" , "Traveling at a rattling rate" , "A snappy pace" , "A spanking breeze"

Elastic; rebounds readily. Synonyms: bouncy, live, resilient, springy. "A lively tennis ball" , "As resilient as seasoned hickory" , "Springy turf"

Filled with events or activity.

Full of spirit. Synonyms: full of life, vital. "A vital and charismatic leader" , "This whole lively world"

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"Lively" Quotes from Famous Books

... lover writing sonnets to his mistress's eyebrow depended after all on the quality of the eyebrow. Her nose was of the straight and fine sort, exquisitely escaping the perdition of too much length. Her hat lay pinned to the grass beside her, and the lively breeze played with her thick dark hair, blowing backward the two broad bandeaux that should have covered much of her forehead, and agitating a hundred tiny curls from the mass ...

— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley

... saved; and the repeated heroism which Ellerthorpe has on former occasions manifested for the preservation of human life, wholly regardless of the risk he himself incurred, and by which he saved eight persons from drowning, has called forth the most lively admiration of this General Court, and justly entitles him to the Honorary Medallion of the Institution which ...

— The Hero of the Humber - or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe • Henry Woodcock

... in full tide. It was also the hunting season, and that meant that Mr. Tom would be at Broadstone for a couple of weeks, and Mrs. Easterfield said she must have Olive at that time. And, in order to make the house lively, she invited Lieutenant Asher and his wife at the same time, as Olive and her young stepmother were now very good friends. Then the captain invited his old friend Captain Lancaster, Dick's father, to visit ...

— The Captain's Toll-Gate • Frank R. Stockton

... on to bust this meetin' to-night and put the hook into you good and hard. Maginnis has spent a thousand to do it. D'yer savvy? Now will yer step lively?" ...

— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... Billy, trying to throw off what he knew the other saw. "Take the kid over to the cabin. A night's sleep and I'll be as lively as a cat. I'm going to vaccinate her before ...

— Isobel • James Oliver Curwood

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