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Lively   /lˈaɪvli/   Listen
adjective
Lively  adj.  (compar. livelier; superl. liveliest)  
1.
Endowed with or manifesting life; living. "Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves."
2.
Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. "But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps? Much livelier than erewhile He seems."
3.
Gay; airy; animated; spirited. "From grave to gay, from lively to severe."
4.
Representing life; lifelike. (Obs.) "I spied the lively picture of my father."
5.
Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous. "The colors of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies." "His faith must be not only living, but lively too."
Lively stones (Script.), saints, as being quickened by the Spirit, and active in holiness.
Synonyms: Brisk; vigorous; quick; nimble; smart; active; alert; sprightly; animated; spirited; prompt; earnest; strong; energetic; vivid; vivacious; blithe; gleeful; airy; gay; jocund.


adverb
Lively  adv.  
1.
In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.
2.
With strong resemblance of life. (Obs.) "Thou counterfeitest most lively."





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"Lively" Quotes from Famous Books



... [Robert C. Winthrop] so graces every assembly which he visits, by his presence, his dignity, his suavity, his art of ruling, whether it be the council of a nation, the legislature of a State, or the lively democracy of a dinner-table, that when he enters a meeting like this, it seems as if the chairs stood back of their own will to let him pass to the head of the board, and the table itself, that most intelligent of quadrupeds, the half reasoning mahogany, tipped him a spontaneous welcome to its ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... Bungalow Boys received their title and how they retained the right to it in spite of much opposition makes a lively narrative for ...
— The Ranger - or The Fugitives of the Border • Edward S. Ellis
... Man that I know of for heightening the Revel-Gayety of a Company, is Estcourt, [3]—whose Jovial Humour diffuses itself from the highest Person at an Entertainment to the meanest Waiter. Merry Tales, accompanied with apt Gestures and lively Representations of Circumstances and Persons, beguile the gravest Mind into a Consent to be as humourous as himself. Add to this, that when a Man is in his good Grace, he has a Mimickry that does not debase ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele
... called Nat and Dodo for short, were standing in the hallway outside Dr. Hunter's door, engaged in a very lively argument. ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... but she forced her tone into the register which Miss Bargarny and her kind would employ to express lively detached regret. "That would be quite dreadful, and most ungrateful. But I do not believe—anything of the sort. No doubt all that reading of his own work stirred his muse and he has shut himself ...
— The Gorgeous Isle - A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 • Gertrude Atherton


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