Lively

//ˈlaɪv.li// adj, adv, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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. 2
    Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.

    "The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies."

  3. 3
    Endowed with or manifesting life; living. archaic

    "c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves"

  4. 4
    Representing life; lifelike. archaic

    "I spied the lively picture of my father."

  5. 5
    Airy; animated; spirited. archaic

    "From grave to gay, from lively to ſevere, [...]"

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  1. 6
    Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
Adjective
  1. 1
    full of spirit; full of life wordnet
  2. 2
    filled with events or activity wordnet
  3. 3
    full of life and energy wordnet
  4. 4
    elastic; rebounds readily wordnet
  5. 5
    quick and energetic wordnet
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  1. 6
    full of zest or vigor wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Vigorously.
  2. 2
    Vibrantly, vividly.
  3. 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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A characteristical surname.
  2. 2
    An urban area of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
  4. 4
    An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas.
  5. 5
    An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
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  1. 6
    An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Term of address. informal

    "Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, equivalent to life + -ly.

Etymology 4

From lively.

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