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Lively
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- 1 Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
"But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haſt, / With youthful ſteps? much livelier then e're while / He ſeems."
- 2 Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
"The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies."
- 3 Endowed with or manifesting life; living. archaic
"c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves"
- 4 Representing life; lifelike. archaic
"I spied the lively picture of my father."
- 5 Airy; animated; spirited. archaic
"From grave to gay, from lively to ſevere, [...]"
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- 6 Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
- 1 full of spirit; full of life wordnet
- 2 filled with events or activity wordnet
- 3 full of life and energy wordnet
- 4 elastic; rebounds readily wordnet
- 5 quick and energetic wordnet
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- 6 full of zest or vigor wordnet
- 1 Vigorously.
- 2 Vibrantly, vividly.
- 3 In a lifelike manner. obsolete
"Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew."
- 1 A characteristical surname.
- 2 An urban area of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
- 3 An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
- 4 An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas.
- 5 An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
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- 6 An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
- 1 Term of address. informal
"Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in."
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.
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.
From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, equivalent to life + -ly.
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