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Definition: Lively |
LivelyAdjective1. Full of life and energy; "a lively discussion"; "lively and attractive parents"; "a lively party". 2. Full of zest or vigor; "a racy literary style". 3. Quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze". 4. Rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resiliant as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf". 5. Filled with events or activity; "a lively period in history". 6. Full of spirit; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world". 7. Characterized by energetic activity; "a lively baby". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "lively" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Note: Lively \Live"ly\, adjective. [Comparative Livelier; superlative Liveliest.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Finance | A market or exchange term used to indicate that transactions have been numerous and that prices have probably tended to rise. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | Term applied to wines which are clean, of medium acidity, usually light and which make a quick impression on the palate. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| LILAC | English | Lively Intensified Lime-Ash Compound | Environment |
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Synonyms: LivelySynonyms: bouncy (adj), brisk (adj), full of life (adj), live (adj), merry (adj), racy (adj), rattling (adj), resilient (adj), snappy (adj), spanking (adj), springy (adj), vital (adj), whippy (adj), zippy (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: dull (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Activity | Interjection: be alive, look alive, look sharp! move on, push on! keep moving! go ahead! stir your stumps! age quod agis! jaldi! karo! step lively! |
Adjective: active, brisk, brisk as a lark, brisk as a bee; lively, animated, vivacious; alive, alive and kicking; frisky, spirited, stirring. | |
Cheerfulness | Adjective: cheerful; happy; cheery, cheerly; of good cheer, smiling; blithe; in spirits, in good spirits; breezy, bully, chipper; in high spirits, in high feather; happy as the day is long, happy as a king; gay as a lark; allegro; debonair; light, lightsome, light hearted; buoyant, debonnaire, bright, free and easy, airy; janty, jaunty, canty; hedonic; riant; sprightly, sprightful; spry; spirited, spiritful; lively, animated, vivacious; brisk as a bee; sparkling, sportive; full of play, full of spirit; all alive. |
Feeling | Warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive; keen, keen as a razor; trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic. |
Imagination | Warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy. |
Life | Adjective: living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave, above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative; lively. (active); all alive and kicking; tenacious of life; full of life, yeasty. |
Physical Sensibility | Acute, sharp, keen, vivid, lively, impressive, thin-skinned. |
Sensibility | Adjective: sensible, sensitive; impressible, impressionable; susceptive, susceptible; alive to, impassionable, gushing; warm hearted, tender hearted, soft hearted; tender as a chicken; soft, sentimental, romantic; enthusiastic, highflying, spirited, mettlesome, vivacious, lively, expressive, mobile, tremblingly alive; excitable; oversensitive, without skin, thin-skinned; fastidious. |
Velocity | Spurt, rush, dash, race, steeple chase; smart rate, lively rate, swift rate; Adjective: rattling rate, spanking rate, strapping rate, smart pace, lively pace, swift pace, rattling pace, spanking pace, strapping pace; round pace; flying, flight. |
Vigor | Spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy,spirited, lively, glowing, sparkling, racy, bold, slashing; pungent, piquant, full of point, pointed, pithy, antithetical; sententious. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lively |
| Specialty definitions using "lively": Axe ♦ Dances ♦ FRANKLIN ♦ kinky yarn ♦ Lampadion ♦ Parsley, Pharpar, PRINCOX. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "lively": Vively. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People (1973) Step Lively (1943) Jeeves! Step Lively (1937) Step Lively (1917) Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917) | |
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 | A Grave Physician & Lively Cobler. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | The true and lively pourtraicture of Valentine Greatrakes. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, circa July 1898. Note damage to buildings in the background, caused by an earthquake the previous March. This tug was renamed Lively in 1918, and returned to service during World War II as YT-323. Credit: NAVY. |  | Lively. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Jack Lively. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The lively leader. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Subway, New York. "Step lively". Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Lively conversation accompanies dinner in the dining room of the State Executive Mansion in Sacramento ... where Governor Earl Warren heads the long table ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Step Lively. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | The Hanlons' new comedy, A lively legacy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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 | Repetitive; repeated; regular; lively; repetitious; upbeat. |
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William Hazlitt | A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | It was but an effusion of lively spirits |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The evening was lively, gay, delightful |
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Business | Throughout China, a lively tabloid sector continues to flourish. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Hong Kong | There is independent research, a wide range of opinions, and lively debate on campuses. (references) |
Belize | Popular radio call-in programs are lively and feature open criticism of and comments on government and political matters. (references) | |
Azerbaijan | There was lively public debate and criticism of government polices in a variety of areas; however, direct criticism of President Aliyev was rare. (references) | |
Economic History | Madagascar | These and a free press promote open and lively discussion of political issues in Madagascar. (references) |
Lebanon | Nonetheless, a lively panoply of domestic political parties, some even predating independence, still exists. (references) | |
Egypt | The majority of political parties have their own newspapers, and these papers conduct a lively, often highly partisan, debate on public issues. (references) | |
Political Economy | Azerbaijan | A lively, critical opposition exists. (references) |
Ghana | The Government and the opposition NDC contest their differences in Parliament, where the debates are frequently lively. (references) | |
Trinidad | Trinidad and Tobago is a parliamentary democracy based on the Westminster model, with an active opposition and lively political debate in the media. (references) | |
Political Rights | Tunisia | Debate within the Chamber is often lively and government ministers are summoned to respond to deputies' questions, although heated exchanges critical of government policy are not reported fully in the press. (references) |
Travel | Bahamas | Many churches in The Bahamas have proud traditions of gospel choir singing, and church services can be quite lively. (references) |
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John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Let the public service be a proud and lively career. |
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| "Lively" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lively" is used about 1,470 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 1,470 | 5,515 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "lively" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lively | Last name | 4,000 | 2,819 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "lively": be as lively as cricket ♦ become lively ♦ lively boat ♦ lively imagination ♦ Lively stones ♦ make it lively. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "lively": lively-eyed, lively-looking, lively-minded, lively-sprig. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "lively"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nxitës (abetter, abettor, aphrodisiac, cordial, encouraging, excitant, fillip, fire brand, fomenter, hortative, hortatory, impellent, incendiary, incentive, inciting, inflammatory, instigator, mainspring, piquant, poignant, promoter, provocative, sexy, sponsor, stimulant, stimulating, warmonger), me gjallëri (briskly, expressively, sprightly, vivaciously, with vivacity), i ndezur (ablaze, aglow, alight, bright, flamboyant, flame, glaring, glazy, hectic, high-colored, high-coloured, live, noisy, on fire, vivid), i gjallë (above ground, alive, animate, animated, breathing, brisk, buckish, buoyant, busy, canty, colorful, colourful, crude, dapper, dashing, dynamic, elastic, erect, fresh, frisky, glowing, graphic, graphical, green, humming, intense, jocund, keen, larky, live, living, mercurial, nimble, noisy, perky, pert, picturesque, playful, poignant, quick, raw, red blooded, saucy, skittish, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, spry, uncooked, vital, vivacious, vivid), gjallë (alive, in the flesh, living person, sprightly), gazmor (cheerful, cheery, convivial, debonair, easygoing, exhilarated, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, hilarious, jaunty, jocular, jocund, jollier, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, perky, riant, set up, zippy), energjik (abuzz, active, aggressive, busily, dapper, drastic, dynamic, eager, energetic, forceful, full of beans, get going, high-spirited, live, peppy, punchy, pushing, rattling, snappy, stirring, sturdy, vigorous, vital, zippy), aktiv (active, asset, bustling, working). (various references) | |
Arabic | يقظ (alert, awake, awoke, careful, circumspect, jaunty, mindful, napless, observant, on duty, open-eyed, prompt, springy, vigilant, wakeful, wary, watchful, wide awake), كله نشاط, مفعم بالحيوية (active, animate, animated, brisk, dynamic, energetic, full of energy, full of life, full of vigor, lusty, peppy, spirited, sprightly, vigorous, vital, vivacious, zippy), مفعم بالحياة (dashing, living, racy, spirited), مرح (airiness, airy, be merry, blithe, breezy, bright, buoyancy, buoyant, cheerful, cheerfulness, cheering, chirpy, exult, facetious, festive, fresh, frisk, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, fun, gaiety, gay, glee, gleeful, have fun, hilarious, hilarity, jaunty, jocose, jocosity, jocund, jolly, jovial, joviality, joy, joyful, joyfulness, joyous, kittenish, lark, light, lightsome, make merry, merriment, merry, merry making, mirth, mirthful, perkiness, perky, playful, playfulness, playing, rejoice, rollick, romp, sportive, sprightly, sunny, vivacious, vivacity, what fun, winsome), نشيط (active, adroit, alert, athletic, dapper, driving, energetic, forceful, hustler, jaunty, live wire, proud, robust, sharp, spirited, sprightly, spry, stout, strenuous, vigorous, vivacious), قوي (able bodied, acute, athletic, brawny, burly, forceful, forcible, full-bodied, furious, generous, hardy, hearty, heavy duty, husky, incorrodible, intense, intensive, keen, lusty, manly, mighty, muscular, pithy, potent, powered, powerful, precious, pronounced, reliable, robust, rude, sledge hammer, spanking, staunch, stern, stiff, stout, strong, sturdy, telling, tight, tough, trig, vehement, vigorous, violent, virtuous, vivid, youthful), حي (active, alive, animate, animated, block, district, existent, graphic, graphical, lifelike, live, living, neighborhood, neighbourhood, nod, part, pictorial, picturesque, quarter, reanimate, recall, regenerate, section, vivid, ward), حاد الطبع (hot-headed, irritable, peevish, peppery, quick tempered), خفيف (agile, brisk, easy-moving, light, light footed, nimble, quick, sprightly, spry, swift), رشيق (active, agile, airy, alert, brisk, clever, dapper, facile, fleet, fluent, fluid, graceful, lightsome, limber, lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, merry, nimble, nippy, quick, ready, sharp, spry, svelte, swift, willowy, zippy), بحيوية (airily, vigorously). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | труден (arduous, awkward, complex, difficile, difficult, dodgy, formidable, heavy, knotty, laborious, painful, perplexed, perplexing, pick-and-shovel, rocky, sore, spiny, stroppy, taxing, thorny, ticklish, tight, tough, tricky, troublesome, uphill, warm), весел (airy, blithe, blithesome, boisterous, bright, buoyant, canty, cheery, chirp, chirpy, colorful, colourful, coltish, convivial, daft, debonair, exhilarated, festal, gamesome, gay, genial, gladsome, gleeful, gleesome, good humoured, good-humored, high, humorous, jaunty, jocular, jocund, joky, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light, light hearted, lightsome, mellow, merry, mirthful, peppy, perky, rackety, roistering, rollicking, rorty, rosy, saucy, slaphappy, sparkish, sportive, sporty, sprightly, swinging, upbeat, winsome), отскачащ бързо, оживено, оживен (active, alive, animate, animated, brisk, bustling, crisp, effervescent, heated, hilarious, racy, roaring, rousing, rush, spirited, sprightly, stirring, thriving, vivacious), опасен (adventurous, awkward, breakneck, dangerous, hazardous, hot, insecure, parlous, perilous, pestiferous, precarious, redoubtable, risky, rocky, rum, rummy, slippery, slippy, trappy, ugly, unchancy, unsafe, unsure, virulent, volatile, warm), живо (alive, graphically, jauntily, quickly, racily, roundly, vitally), жив (above ground, active, agile, alert, alive, animate, breezy, brisk, cheerful, dashing, high-colored, high-coloured, jaunty, jazz, jazzy, live, living, lusty, mercurial, mobile, nervous, nimble, organic, peppy, perky, pert, picturesque, pregnant, quick, racy, rattling, round, saucy, sharp, skittish, snappy, spicy, spirited, sprightly, spry, swinging, vital, vivacious, vivid, volatile, warm, whippy, zappy, zippy), жизнен (full of life, full-blooded, gut, key, live, lusty, pithy, sappy, sturdy, vital, vivacious), бързо (apace, chop-chop, express, fast, hastily, hotfoot, hurriedly, hurry-scurry, promptly, pronto, quick, quickly, snap, speedily, sweepingly, swiftly, trippingly), бърз (agile, brisk, dapper, expedite, expeditious, express, fast, forward, hasty, hurried, light-heeled, natty, nippy, precipitate, pressing, prompt, quick, rapid, rattling, ready, rush, sharp, slapdash, slippy, smart, spanking, speedy, sweeping, time-saving, urgent, wing-footed), буен (bacchanalian, blustery, catchy, ebullient, exuberant, furious, gross, high-spirited, hot, hot-blooded, hot-brained, hotheaded, impetuous, incandescent, jazz, jazzy, knockabout, lush, luxuriant, obstreperous, opulent, phrenetic, prancing, profuse, proud, puffy, puppyish, rambunctious, rampant, rank, riotous, roaring, rough, rough and tumble, rousing, rude, rumbustious, spicy, spirited, sweeping, thick, torrential, tumultuous, turbulent, unchecked, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, vigorous, violent, wanton, zizzi), пъргав (active, agile, alert, alive, deft, elastic, lissom, lithesome, nifty, nimble, nippy, pretty, prompt, quick, ready, resilient, sinuous, smart, snappy, spring, spry, versatile, volatile, wanton, warm, whippy, zippy), подвижен (adjustable, adjusting, agile, airy, ambulatory, detachable, drop, flexible, floating, light, limber, lissome, lithe, live, mobile, movable, moveable, moving, nimble, nippy, ready, removable, resilient, shifting, sliding, traveling, travelling, versatile), плъзгащ се леко. (various references) | |
Chinese | 熱鬧 (bustling with noise and excitement), 神 (divine essence, God, mysterious, soul, spirit, spiritual being, unusual), "氣勃勃 , 活泼 (chirpy), 活潑 (active, brisk, vivacious). (various references) | |
Czech | veselý (blithesome, bright, cheerful, chirpy, convivial, exhilarated, gay, gleeful, happy, high-spirited, hilarious, humorous, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyous, light hearted, merry, mirthful, pleasant, rollicking, rorty, sportful, vivacious), temperamentní (bubbly, fiery, high-spirited, spirited, vital, vivacious), oživený (alive), živý (active, airy, alive, animated, bright, brisk, chirpy, clear, exhilarating, gay, heated, high-spirited, lifelike, live, living, mercurial, perky, pleasant, quick, racy, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
Danish | livligt (animated, brisk), livlig (adroit, agile, alert, brisk, keen), liflig (agreeable), frisk (fresh, recent). (various references) | |
Dutch | snedig (striking, witty), pittig (nutty, vivacious), gevat (to the point, witty), geestig (witty), ad rem (to the point, witty). (various references) | |
Esperanto | verva (vivacious), sprita (witty). (various references) | |
Faeroese | hittinorðaður (witty), eldhugaður (vivacious). (various references) | |
Farsi | سرزنده (Alive, Animate, Live, Snappy, Spirituous, Sprightly, Vivacious, Yare), زنده (Alive, Fresh, Quick, Vivid), جالب توجه (Liberal, Notable, Remarkable, Unco, Yummy), ازروی نشاط, باسروروشعف , باروح (Airy, Allegro, Animate, Brisk, Fresh, Gaily, Peppery, Racy, Snappy, Spunky). (various references) | |
Finnish | pirteä (agile, alert, perky, spirited), eloisa (animated, full of life, sprightly, vivacious, vivid). (various references) | |
French | vif, spirituel, animé. (various references) | |
German | lebhaft (agile, animated, bouncy, breezy, brisk, briskly, chirpy, eager, feisty, fresh, frisky, gay, mercurial, mobile, quick, quicksilver, spiritedly, sprightly, vivace, vivacious, vivid, vividly), lebendig (alive, bubbly, exuberant, fervent, live, livelily, living, spirited, spiritedly, vital, vivid). (various references) | |
Greek | ζωηρός (animated, skittish, vivacious, zippy). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלא חיים (graphic, live, racy, snappy, sprightly, spry, vibrant), חי" (alive, animal, beast, brute). (various references) | |
Hungarian | lendületes (animated, breezy, buoyant, dashing, energetic, follow-through, full of zip, have plenty of go, snappy, to be full of go, zippy), fürge (agile, beany, brisk, deft, fleet, limber, lissom, lissome, lithesome, mercurial, nifty, nimble, nippy, perky, quick, rattling, smart, spry, swift), eleven (alive, animated, beany, bobbish, brisk, cheerful, kinetic, live, living, mercurial, mettlesome, peart, perky, picturesque, racy of the soil, rattling, smart, sprightly, spruce, to be full of beans, to feel one's oats, vivacious, vivid), élénk (active, adroit, agile, alert, alive, animated, astir, bobbish, breezy, brisk, busy, cant, canty, cheerful, chipper, chirpy, frisky, high colour, keen, live, loud cheers, mercurial, nimble, nippy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy of the soil, rattling, saucy bit, skittish, spruce, to be in high spirits, vigorous, vivacious, vivid, warm). (various references) | |
Indonesian | lincah (unsteady), semarak (animation, efflugence, lustrous), santer (heavy, hot news). (various references) | |
Irish | bríomhar. (various references) | |
Italian | vivo (alive, bright, deep, lifelike, live, living, living person, quick, racy, raw, sharp, soul), vivace (alive, animated, bright, brisk, buoyant, chirpy, colorful, colourful, dashing, frisky, gay, jaunty, perky, quick, racy, skittish, spirited, sprightly, spry, vibrant, vigorous, vivacious, vivid), spiritoso (facetious, humorous, witty), animato (animate, animated, heated, living, racy). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 豪快 (exciting, hearty, heroic, largehearted, splendid, stirring), ""しい (fresh, green, raw), "" (growing up), "き"きと (vividly), "き"き (vividly), "々しい (fresh, green, raw), 溌剌たる (sprightly, vivid), 溌剌 (vigorous), 活溌 (active), きか"気 (accurately, brisk, clearly, close, creak, daring, distinctly, energetic, exactly, intense, perfectly, plainly, precisely, squeak, tight, tightly, unyielding), ぴくぴく動く (banging shut, closely, exactly, flat, hopping, neatly, properly, sharp, skipping, slapping, sound of whistling or wheezing, splashing, splatting, sudden but subtle, suddenly, tightly, to jerk, to twitch, to wiggle, whistling of wind), ぴ"と来る (full, plump, small cloth for wiping tea utensils, small silk wrapper, soft, sound of heavy breathing, to get, to know intuitively, to strike home, well-rounded). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | なまなましい (fresh, green, raw), きびきび (brisk, energetic), せいせい (accurately, create, due west, exactly, feel refreshed, feel relieved, form, generate, growing up, neatly, punctually, purification, symmetrical), かっぱつ (active, vigor), いきいきと (vividly), いきいき (vividly), "うかい (exciting, hearty, heroic, largehearted, splendid, stirring), ぴ"ぴ" , ぴちぴち , はつらつたる (sprightly, vivid), はつらつ (vigorous). (various references) | |
Korean | 기운찬 (snappy). (various references) | |
Manx | mioyral (sensitive), looragh, gastey (active, agile, athletic, clever, speedy), bioyr (breezy, bright, brisk, frisky, graphic, nippy, smart, soulstirring, spirited, spry, vibrant, vivacious, vivid, vivid as imagination, volatile), annymagh (magnanimous). (various references) | |
Norwegian | livlig (brisk). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ivelylay.(various references) | |
Polish | sprytny (witty), dowcipny (witty). (various references) | |
Portuguese | vívido (vivid), animado (active, adroit, agile, alert, animate, cheerful, chirk, exhilarated, fleet, graphic, graphical, heartwarming, keen, spirited, sprightly, vivacious, warm, zippy). (various references) | |
Romanian | zglobiu (fleet, frolicsome), vivace (Hardy, perennial), viu (alive, animate, animated, breathing, bright, eager, eternal, forcible, fresh, glowing, green, high, hot stuff, intense, intensely, live, living, natural, never-fading, poignant, rapid, rich, smart, sprightly, strong, vivid, vividly), vioi (active, alert, animated, breezy, bright, brisk, briskly, cheery, chirpy, crisp, full of beans, gamy, hasty, hoity toity, lightsome, lithe, live, living, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, nimble, nimbly, pleasant, quick-witted, racy, Randy, ready, smart, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, vigorous, volatile), vesel (blithe, blithesome, boon, breezy, bright, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, convivial, crank, debonair, elastic, feastful, festal, frisky, frolic, frolicsome, full-blooded, gaily, gamesome, gay, genial, glad, gladsome, gleeful, happy, hilarious, in full feather, in high feather, jauntily, jaunty, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyfully, joyous, mellow, merry, mirthful, playful, pleasant, riant, saucy, sprightly, tails up, wanton), sprinten (agile, agilely, alive, fleet, fleet-footed, light footed, lightsome, lissom, lithe, nimble, nimbly, nippy, quick, trippingly, wanton, wing-footed), plin de viaţã (high-spirited, jocund, live, peppy, perky, resilient), iute (agile, alert, alive, brisk, expeditious, fast, fleet, fleetingly, hasty, hot, hot tempered, mercurial, merry, nippy, peppered, peppery, piquant, pungent, quick, quickly, rapid, rapidly, rattling, sharp, spanking, speedy, spirited, steep, strong, swift, swiftly, trippingly, violent, warm), inteligent (apprehensive, argute, brainy, bright, clever, comprehensive, cute, intelligent, keen, luminous, neat, nimbly, politic, sagacious, sage, sharp, sharp-witted, smart, understanding), glumeţ (amusing, facetious, funny, humorous, jestful, jesting, jocose, merry, playful, prankish, sly, wag, witty), energic (a live wire, active, alive, brisk, buoyant, dapper, drastic, dynamic, emphatic, energetic, energetically, forcible, full of beans, humming, iron, keen, living, managing, mightily, peppy, peremptory, pushful, pushing, sharp, snappy, stout, stoutly, strenuous, strong, strong-minded, trenchant, virile), dispus (arranged, content, in the mood for, inclinable, inclined, minded, ready, willing), ager (active, acute, agile, clever, cute, fast, mercurial, mettlesome, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd, skilful, skillful, spirited, understanding). (various references) | |
Russian | сильный (bad, big, brawny, closely-coupled, exquisite, forceful, forcible, hard, intense, iron, keen, lusty, marrowy, muscular, pithy, potent, powerful, racy, rugged, strenuous, strong, sturdy, swashing, swingeing, two-fisted, upstanding, vehement, vigorous, violent), веселый (blithe, blithesome, breezy, canty, cheerful, cheery, chirpy, convivial, corky, debonair, exhilarated, exhilarating, festive, frolic, gamesome, gay, gleeful, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, light hearted, lightsome, merry, mirthful, perky, playful, pleasant, set up, sportful, sportive, sprightly), оживленный (animated, brisk, buoyant demand, busy, cheery, jolly, much bucked, sparky, spirited, sprightly, vibrant, vivacious), живой (alive, animate, bouncy, boyish, breathing, breezy, brisk, cheery, chipper, chirp, chirpy, crisp, dashing, hands-on, high-colored, high-coloured, jazzy, jocund, live, living, lusty, nimble, oomph, peppy, poignant, quick, rip-roaring, roaring, scintillating, skittish, snappy, sparky, spirited, sprightly, spry, vital, vivacious, vivid, zippy), быстрый (agile, expedite, expeditious, fast, fast-moving, fleet, flying, hasty, light, nimble, prompt, quick, rapid, rath, rathe, sharpish, slippy, smart, snappy, spanking, speedy, straightaway, swift, tantivy, winged, wing-footed). (various references) | |
Scottish | lurach (delightful, nimble, pretty), sgairteil (smart, vigorous), meadhrach (festive, glad, joyful), ceilear (singing or chirping of birds; light), brisg (a. brittle, brittle). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | veseo (blithe, blithesome, canty, cheerful, exuberant, festive, frolic, gay, happy, jocose, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, lightsome, merry, mirthful, perky, rejoicing, rollicking), prirodan (artless, native, natural), čio (corky, hale, hearty, sprightly, vivacious), žustar (agile, brisk, dashing, glowing, hot, pert, smart, snappy, spry, spunky), životni (vital), živo (alive, flesh: in the flesh, quickly). (various references) | |
Spanish | animado (alive, animate, animated, buoyed up, busy, cheerful, chipper, Chirk, chirpy, ebullient, enlivens, freshens, jazzy, pert, sprightly, upbeat, zippy). (various references) | |
Swedish | livlig (adroit, agile, alert, animate, animated, brisk, bubbly, buckish, high pitched, intense, keen, kittenish, mercurial, mettlesome, nimble, pert, racy, rousing, snappy, vital, vivacious, volatile). (various references) | |
Thai | เต็มไป"้วยการเคลื่อนไหว, ชั"เจน (apparent, apparently, articulate, bold, clean-cut, clear, luculent, obvious, tangible), กระตือรือร้น (ardent, dynamical, eager, enthusiastic, keen, keen as mustard), ร่าเริง ((as) happy as a lark, exuberant, frolicsome, gleeful, jaunty, jolly, spunk up), คล่องแคล่ว (glib, lissom, lissome, sleek, slick, snappy). (various references) | |
Turkish | parlak (aglow, ardent, bright, brightly, brilliant, clear, dazzling, effulgent, flamboyant, flaming, flaring, flashily, flashy, fulgent, fulgurant, glace, glittering, glossy, glowing, gorgeous, illuminant, incandescent, irradiant, jazzy, lambent, live, loud, lucent, luminescent, luminous, lustrous, meteoric, oriental, polished, pyrotechnic, pyrotechnical, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, sheeny, shining, shiny, sleek, sparkling, splendent, splendid, star, staring, starry, sunny, vivid), neşeli (airy, animate, animated, blithe, boon, breezy, bright, bucked, buoyant, buoyed up, cheerful, cheerfully, cheery, chirpy, cock-a-hoop, debonair, debonaire, easygoing, eupeptic, exhilarated, fit as a fiddle, full of beans, gamesome, gay, genial, gleeful, high, hilarious, jocund, jolly, jovial, joyful, joyous, merry, merrymaking, mirthful, perky, rambunctious, rollicking, slaphappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, sunny, upbeat, vivacious), heyecanlandırıcı (breathtaking, electrifying, exciting, heart-warming, stirring), hayat dolu (alive, alive and kicking, animate, animated, as fresh as daisy, Corky, dewy, exuberant, fresh, full of life, genial, live, quick, sprightly, vital, vivacious, vivid), enerjik (active, beany, brisk, driving, dynamic, energetic, full of beans, ginger, gingery, high pressure, peppy, rustling, springy, vibrant, vigorous, virile, warm blooded, zippy), eğlenceli (amusing, enjoyable, entertaining, fun, rollicking, saturnalian, sociable, upbeat), canlı (active, alive, animate, animated, beany, breezy, bright, brightly, brisk, bustling, colorful, colourful, Corky, crisp, crispy, dashing, dewy, driving, exhilarated, expressive, exuberant, feeling, fresh, full of beans, full of life, gay, genially, ginger, gingery, glowing, go-go, graphic, graphical, hearty, humming, in the flesh, inspired, life, live, living, living being, living creature, lusty, mercurial, mettled, mettlesome, peppy, perky, picturesque, quick, racy, rich, rousing, sappy, saturated, smart, snappy, spirited, sprightly, springy, swinging, vibrant, vital, vivacious, vivid, warm, with it, zippy). (various references) | |
Turkmen | janly (active, alive). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | жваво (actively, belive, glibly, jauntily, make it snappy, nimbly, zestfully), живий (above ground, alive, animate, live, living, on the hoof, vegetal, vivacious), пожвавлений (active, animate, animated, cheery). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thất điên bát đảo sắc sảo; tươi, sinh động (alive, breathing, lifeful), sống (alive, crude, live, living, unbaked), sôi nổi khó khăn, nguy hiểm (breakneck, perilous), năng nổ (aggressive), giống như thật vui vẻ; hoạt bát hăng hái. (various references) | |
Welsh | nwyfus (spirited, sprightly), hoyw (alert, bright, gay, homosexual, spritely), heini (active, agile, brisk, nimble), gwisgi (agile, brisk, nimble, ripe), bywiog (active, animated, brisk, vivacious). (various references) | |
Wolof | xumb. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | celeres, celerius, hilarem, hilarior, hilaris, hilariter, vegetus, vivax, vividus. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | frisque. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | brusque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Acts Chapter 7, Verse 38 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | OutoV estin o genomenoV en th ekklhsia en th erhmw meta tou aggelou tou lalountoV autw en tw orei sina kai twn paterwn hmwn oV edexato logia zwnta dounai hmin |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Hic est qui fuit in ecclesia in solitudine cum angelo qui loquebatur ei in monte Sina et cum patribus nostris qui accepit verba vitae dare nobis |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | This it is, that was in the chirche in wildirnesse, with the aungel that spak to hym in the mount of Syna, and with oure fadris; which took words of lijf to yyue to vs. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | This is he that was in ye congregacion in the wyldernes with the angell which spake to him in ye moute Syna and with oure fathers. This man receaved the worde of lyfe to geve vnto vs |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us: |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the living oracles to give to us: |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Acts Chapter 7, Verse 38 |
| Albanian | Ky është ai që në kuvend, në shkretëtirë, ishte me engjëllin që i fliste mbi malin Sinai dhe me etërit tanë; dhe mori fjalët e jetës për të na e përçuar neve. |
| Cebuano | Mao kini siya ang didto sa katilingban sa kamingawan uban sa manolunda nga misulti kaniya sa Bukid sa Sinai, ug uban sa atong mga ginikanan; ug maoy midawat sa buhing mga pulong aron kini ihatag kanato. |
| Croatian | To je onaj koji za skupa u pustinji bijaše izmeðu Anðela što mu govoraše na brdu Sinaju i otaca naših; onaj koji je primio rijeèi životne da ih nama preda. |
| Danish | Han er den, som i Menigheden i Ørkenen færdedes med Engelen, der talte til ham på Sinai Bjerg, og med vore Fædre; den, som modtog levende Ord at give os; |
| Dutch | Deze is het, die in de vergadering des volks in de woestijn was met den Engel, Die tot hem sprak op den berg Sinai, en met onze vaderen; welke de levende woorden ontving, om ons die te geven. |
| Finnish | Hän on se, joka seurakunnassa, erämaassa, oli enkelin kanssa, joka puhui hänelle Siinain vuorella, ja oli myös isiemme kanssa; ja hän sai eläviä sanoja meille annettaviksi. |
| French | C`est lui qui, lors de l`assemblée au désert, étant avec l`ange qui lui parlait sur la montagne de Sinaï et avec nos pères, reçut des oracles vivants, pour nous les donner. |
| German | Dieser ist's, der in der Gemeinde in der Wüste mit dem Engel war, der ihm redete auf dem Berge Sinai und mit unsern Vätern; dieser empfing lebendige Worte, uns zu geben; |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Musalah yang di tengah-tengah bangsa Israel di padang pasir, menjadi perantara untuk malaikat yang berbicara kepadanya di Gunung Sinai dengan nenek moyang kita. Dialah yang menerima dari Allah berita yang hidup untuk disampaikan kepada kita. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka ialah yang ada di dalam perhimpunan di padang belantara beserta dengan malaekat, yang bertutur kepadanya di gunung Torsina itu, dan beserta dengan nenek moyang kita, dan yang menerima segala firman yang hidup, supaya disampaikannya kepada kita. |
| Italian | Egli è colui che, mentre erano radunati nel deserto, fu mediatore tra l'angelo che gli parlava sul monte Sinai e i nostri padri; egli ricevette parole di vita da trasmettere a noi. |
| Maori | Ko ia ano tenei i te whakaminenga i te koraha, raua ko te anahera i korero ra ki a ia i Maunga Hinai, ko o tatou matua hoki: i riro mai ai i a ia nga kupu ora hei homai ki a tatou. |
| Norwegian | Han er den som i menigheten i ørkenen var med den engel som talte til ham på Sinai berg, og med våre fedre, han som mottok levende ord for å gi oss dem. |
| Portuguese | Este é o que esteve na congregação no deserto, com o anjo que lhe falava no monte Sinai, e com nossos pais, o qual recebeu palavras de vida para vo-las dar; |
| Rumanian | El este acela care, kn adunarea Israeliyilor din pustie, cu kngerul, care i -a vorbit pe muntele Sinai, wi cu pqrinyii nowtri, a primit cuvinte vii, ca sq ni le dea nouq. |
| Russian | ьФП ФПФ, ЛПФПТЩК 'ЩМ Ч УП'ТБОЙЙ Ч ХУФЩОЕ У бОЗЕМПН, ЗПЧПТЙЧЫЙН ЕНХ ОБ ЗПТЕ уЙОБЕ, Й У ПФ"БНЙ ОБЫЙНЙ, Й ЛПФПТЩК ТЙОСМ ЦЙЧЩЕ УМПЧБ, ЮФП'Щ ЕТЕ"БФШ ОБН, |
| Shuar | Jú Muisais Israer-aentsjai atsamunam pujumiayi. Senái nainnium Yusa suntari Níijiaisha pujumiayi. Tura Muisaiska ii uuntrijiai pujumiayi. Níiyaiti iwiaaku pujustin chichaman sunasmia nu. Iin ujatmaktinian sunasmiayi.' |
| Swahili | Wakati watu wa Israeli walipokutana pamoja kule jangwani, Mose ndiye aliyekuwako huko pamoja nao. Alikuwa huko pamoja na babu zetu na yule malaika aliyeongea naye mlimani Sinai; ndiye aliyekabidhiwa yale maneno yaletayo uzima atupe sisi. |
| Swedish | Det var och han, som under den tid då menigheten levde i öknen, både var hos ängeln, som talade med honom på berget Sinai, och tillika hos våra fäder; och han undfick levande ord för att giva dem åt eder. |
| Uma | Musa toe-mile to mpodoo-ra ntodea to Israel hi tana' to wao' -e. Hi'a-mi to mpo'epe lolita mala'eka to mpololitai-i hi lolo Bulu' Sinai, pai' -i jadi' tauntongo' to mpoparata lolita toe hi ntu'a-ta owi. Hi'a to mpotarima ngkai Pue' Ala lolita to tuwu' to raparata-taka duu' tempo toi-e. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "lively": unlively. (additional references) | |
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"Lively" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kiveli, Laveleye, lavey, levey, Lisvesly, litely, livel, liverly, Livesley, livey, lurvely, luvely, luvey, luvly, luv'ly, luvverly, luvvly, slavely. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "lively" (pronounced lī"vlē) |
| 3 | -v l ē | accumulatively, actively, administratively, affectively, affirmatively, aggressively, alternatively, appreciatively, assertively, attentively, attractively, authoritatively, bravely, cohesively, collectively, comparatively, competitively, comprehensively, compulsively, conclusively, consecutively, conservatively, constructively, cooperatively, creatively, cumulatively, deceptively, decisively, defensively, definitively, derisively, distinctively, effectively, effusively, excessively, exclusively, exhaustively, expensively, explosively, extensively, figuratively, furtively, gravely, imaginatively, impassively, impressively, impulsively, inconclusively, inexpensively, instinctively, intensively, intuitively, legislatively, lovely, massively, naively, negatively, objectively, obsessively, offensively, passively, persuasively, plaintively, positively, preemptively, productively, progressively, prohibitively, prospectively, protectively, provocatively, qualitatively, quantitatively, reflexively, relatively, respectively, retroactively, retrospectively, seductively, selectively, sensitively, substantively, successively, tentatively. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: evilly, vilely. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-l-l-v-y" | |
-2 letters: evil, illy, levy, lily, live, veil, vile, vill, yell, yill. | |
-3 letters: ell, ill, ivy, lei, lev, ley, lie, lye, vie. | |
-4 letters: el, li, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-l-l-v-y" | |
+2 letters: elvishly, livelily, lovelily, silverly, unlively, veiledly, velleity, venially, virilely, weevilly. | |
+3 letters: elusively, servilely, villagery, violently, volleying. | |
+4 letters: ablatively, allusively, believably, cavalierly, delusively, devilishly, electively, illatively, illusively, involvedly, lenitively, medievally, primevally, relatively, relievedly, vertically, viewlessly, virulently, viscerally. | |
+5 letters: adverbially, collusively, emulatively, equivocally, exclusively, explosively, genitivally, grovelingly, impulsively, inclusively, intervalley, inviolately, liveability, lucratively, plaintively, prelusively, reclusively, reflexively, repulsively, revealingly, revoltingly, seclusively, selectively, talkatively, universally, vectorially, veridically, versatilely, vestigially, vexillology, viceregally, voicelessly. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Bible Trace 19. |
