lively

Betekenis (Engels)

Adj

1. Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
2. Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
3. (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
4. (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
5. (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
6. Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.

Noun

Term of address.

Adv

1. Vigorously.
2. Vibrantly, vividly.
3. (obsolete) In a lifelike manner.

Sinonieme

active

vivacious

energetic

brisk

vivid

cheerful

animated

sprightly

alive

vigorous

quick

spirited

agile

bright

perky

spry

merry

gay

nimble

high-spirited

busy

bustling

alert

vital

racy

vigorously

exuberant

live

sharp

living

keen

joyful

buoyant

full of life

animate

frisky

colorful

energetically

jaunty

adroit

happy

😀

vividly

animatedly

poignant

playful

bouncy

bouncing

fresh

colourful

light

Vertalings

vivace

lebhaft

vif

frisch

vivo

lebendig

animado

levendig

munter

vivaz

snedig

ad rem

druk

gewandt

actif

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈlaɪv.li/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: lyvely

Geërf van Old English: līflīċ

Verwante met Skots: lively

Geërf van Old English: līflīċe

In summary

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.

Sinne

He also possessed quite a lively disposition .