Livelily

//ˈlaɪvlɪli// adv

adv ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a lively manner.

    "They were friends, travelling together;⁠—they began to say we. Ah! how pathetic is that we, when pronounced by love! How timid, yet how livelily expressed, is the declaration which it contains!"

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"Transcending time, the insects of ages gone past dance livelily in amber."

Etymology

From lively + -ly.

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