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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

look lively en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (imperative) Synonym of look alive.
    • The train was well filled, with quite an amount of intermediate business; but station staff and passengers alike seemed ready enough to "look lively", and the result was a general "slickness" in working that augers^([sic]) well for the future. 1959 June 14, O. S. Nock, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 408:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
looked lively Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
looked lively Tense=Past lexicographic
looking lively Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
looks lively Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Synonyms

look alive