lively

Meanings

Adjective

• Full of life; energetic.
• Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
• Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
• Representing life; lifelike.
• Airy; animated; spirited.
• Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.

Adverb

• Vigorously.
• Vibrantly, vividly.
• In a lifelike manner.

Related

Similar words

• intense
• lifey, limned, naturalistic,
• frothy, spumescent

Origin

• From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ, equivalent to life + -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely. lifely.
• From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, equivalent to life + -ly.