vivacious en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin vīvāx (“lively, vigorous”) + -acious, from vīvere (“to live”).
Meanings
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Lively and animated; full of life and energy.
She made reasonable progress, entertained for me a vivacious, though perhaps not very profound, affection; and by her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.
1864, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, New York: Carleton, pages 112-113:Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...
1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe that the xenial relation was not less vivacious than that of blood.
1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, volume 2, Oxford University Press, pages 459–460:
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(obsolete) Long-lived.
Hitherto the English bishops had been vivacious almost to wonder. For, necessarily presumed of good years before entering on their office, in the first of queen Elizabeth it was much that but five died for the first twenty years of her reign.
1842, Thomas Fuller, D.D., The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year MDCXLVIII., THIRD edition, volume II, London, page 516:
- (rare) Difficult to kill.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most vivacious | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more vivacious | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Deriveds
unvivacious · vivaciousness · vivacity · vibracious · vivaciously
Relateds
Synonyms
bubbly (lively and animated) · animated (lively and animated) · high-spirited (lively and animated) · vibrant (lively and animated) · spicy (lively and animated) · effervescent (lively and animated) · ebullient (lively and animated) · lively (lively and animated) · exciting (lively and animated)
Translations (60)
nl levendig (lively and animated) · ru живучий (difficult to kill) · ka მრავალწლიანი (long-lived) · cmn 長久 /长久 (long-lived) · fi pitkäikäinen (long-lived) · de langlebig (difficult to kill) · es vivaz (lively and animated) · mk ве́сел (lively and animated) · la vīvāx (difficult to kill) · bg оживен (lively and animated) · bg жив (lively and animated) · mi ngangahau (lively and animated) · mk жи́лав (difficult to kill) · ru жизнерадостный (lively and animated) · cmn 很難殺死 /很难杀死 (difficult to kill) · sh dugovječan (long-lived) · mk долго́вечен (long-lived) · ca vivaç (lively and animated) · mk по́движен (lively and animated) · ru оживлённый (lively and animated) · ka ცოცხალი (lively and animated) · lv možs (lively and animated) · ota دینج (lively and animated) · cmn 長命 /长命 (long-lived) · de lebhaft (lively and animated) · sv livlig (lively and animated) · fi eloisa (lively and animated) · la vīvāx (long-lived) · bg дълговечен (long-lived) · cs čilý (lively and animated) · tr hayat dolu (lively and animated) · fa سرزنده (lively and animated) · lv mundrs (lively and animated) · cs čiperný (lively and animated) · lv žirgts (lively and animated) · sv livfull (lively and animated) · cmn 精神 (lively and animated) · es vivaz (long-lived) · ka ცხოველი (lively and animated) · mk жив (lively and animated) · gl vivaz (lively and animated) · ru многоле́тний (long-lived) · it vivace (lively and animated) · la vīvāx (lively and animated) · de langlebig (long-lived) · ka მხიარული (lively and animated) · cs vytrvalý (difficult to kill) · ga móraigeanta (lively and animated) · cmn 活潑 /活泼 (lively and animated) · sh dugovjek (long-lived) · pt vivaz (lively and animated) · cs živý (lively and animated) · sh živahan (lively and animated) · mk и́здржлив (difficult to kill) · fi pirteä (lively and animated) · fi sitkeähenkinen (difficult to kill) · ru живо́й (lively and animated) · lv spirgts (lively and animated) · fr vivace (lively and animated) · ka სიცოცხლისმოყვარული (lively and animated)