lively
Plural: livelies
Adjective
- Full of life and energy; active and enthusiastic.
- full of life and energy
- "a lively discussion"
- "lively and attractive parents"
- "a lively party"
Adjective Satellite
- full of zest or vigor
- quick and energetic
- "a lively gait"
- elastic; rebounds readily
- "a lively tennis ball"
- filled with events or activity
- "a lively period in history"
- full of spirit
- "this whole lively world"
Adj
- Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
- Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
- Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
- Representing life; lifelike.
- Airy; animated; spirited.
- Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
Noun
- Term of address.
Adv
- Vigorously.
- Vibrantly, vividly.
- In a lifelike manner.
Examples
- His lively gameplay kept the Words With Friends match exciting until the very end.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital”), from Proto-West Germanic *lībalīk (“living, lively”), equivalent to life + -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (“of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like”), Old High German līblīh (“living, animated”), German leiblich (“bodily, corporeal”). Doublet of lifely and lifelike.
Synonyms
alert, bouncy, brisk, full of life, live, merry, racy, rattling, resilient, snappy, spanking, springy, vital, zippy, active, alive, extant, frisky, frothy, high-spirited, intense, lifey, limned, naturalistic, peppy, spumescent, zestful
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 12
lively: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlively: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lively: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary