Meaning

6 senses
  1. Full of life; energetic, vivacious.

    lebhaft, lebendig, munter

    оживлённыйoživljónnyj, живойživoj, искристыйiskristyj

    жва́вийžvávyj

    full of spirit; full of life

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

    жва́вийžvávyj

  3. Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.

    пе́нистыйpénistyj

  4. (archaic)Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

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

    full of life and energy

  5. (archaic)Representing life; lifelike.

  6. (archaic)Airy; animated; spirited.

Examples

74 sentences
  1. Tom is lively.

    Том енергійний.

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  2. This is a very lively place.

    ruЭто очень оживлённое место.

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  3. It was a very lively debate.

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  4. We had a lively party last night.

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  5. My grandfather is 90 years old and very lively.

    ruМоему деду девяносто лет, и он полон жизни.

    deMein Großvater ist 90 Jahre alt und sehr gesund.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
full of life:
Русский
By meaning 2
full of life:
fizzy; foamy:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
full of life:

Origin

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, n

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.

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Forms

livelier, liveliest
Comparativelivelier Lesson
Superlativeliveliest Lesson

irregular

Synonyms

25 synonyms
vivid, strong, vigorous:intenseB1smartA1
endowed with or manifesting life:extantC2
full of life:high-spirited
representing life:lifeylimnednaturalistic
fizzy, foamy:frothyspumescent
Close in meaning

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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