verve
Plural: verves
Noun
- Energy, enthusiasm, and vivacity; spirit.
- an energetic style
- Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.
- A particular skill in writing.
Examples
- She played with such verve, her words practically danced across the Words With Friends board.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word.
Synonyms
vitality, alacrity, ardor, brio, celerity, energy, enthusiasm, exuberance, exuberantness, fanaticism, fervor, gusto, liveliness, moxie, panache, purpose, verve, vigor, vim, vivacity, zeal, zealousness, élan
Scrabble Score: 11
verve: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordverve: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
verve: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary