verve

Meaning

1. Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.
2. (obsolete) A particular skill in writing.

Synonyms

vigour

liveliness

vitality

enthusiasm

spirit

crispness

energy

fire

🔥

friskiness

gayness

vigor

animation

ardor

briskness

buoyancy

pep

peppiness

raciness

rapture

snappiness

spiciness

spiritedness

sprightliness

vibrancy

vivaciousness

vivacity

vividness

zeal

zest

rompishness

jauntiness

luridness

gusto

inspiration

excitement

life

ginger

fervor

oomph

vim

brio

perkiness

spryness

terrific speed

sand

activeness

soul

Pronounced as (IPA)

/vɜːv/

Etymology

Borrowed from French verve (“animation; caprice, whim; rapture; spirit; vigour; type of expression”), probably from Late Latin verva, a variant of Latin verba (“words; discourse; expressions; language”), the plural of verbum (“word”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁- (“to say, speak”). Doublet of verb and word.