Definition of Lively

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Lively

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth.

Gay; airy; animated; spirited.

Representing life; lifelike.

Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.

In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.

With strong resemblance of life.

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Lively Quotations

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.
Jane Austen

Life is a lively process of becoming.
Douglas MacArthur

If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.
Mel Brooks

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Marquis de Sade

I believe in a lively disrespect for most forms of authority.
Rita Mae Brown

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
David Hume

They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
Laura Bush

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Iris Murdoch

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
William Hazlitt

Lively Translations

lively in Dutch is snedig, geestig, gevat, ad rem
lively in French is fringant, spirituel
lively in German is lebendig, lebhaft, lebendig
lively in Italian is allegro, vivo, vivace
lively in Latin is vegetus
lively in Norwegian is livlig
lively in Spanish is animado, despabilado, viviente
lively in Swedish is livlig, alert

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