lively

Etymology 1
From, , from , equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬,. .

Adjective

 * 1) Full of life; energetic.
 * 2) Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
 * 3)  Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
 * 4) * c. 1600,
 * chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
 * 1)  Representing life; lifelike.
 * 2)  Airy; animated; spirited.
 * 3)  Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
 * 1)  Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
 * 2) * c. 1600,
 * chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
 * 1)  Representing life; lifelike.
 * 2)  Airy; animated; spirited.
 * 3)  Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
 * 1)  Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
 * 1)  Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.

Synonyms

 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:active
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:alive
 * ,, ; see also Thesaurus:alive

Collocations

 * lively person
 * lively character
 * lively lady
 * lively woman
 * lively man
 * lively audience
 * lively personality
 * lively art
 * lively guide
 * lively activity
 * lively game
 * lively lesson
 * lively introduction
 * lively discussion
 * lively debate
 * lively writing
 * lively image
 * lively town
 * lively city
 * lively village

Translations

 * Arabic: دَجِر
 * Egyptian Arabic: نشيط
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: vivaç
 * Czech:
 * Danish: livlig
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: verva, sprita
 * Faroese: lívligur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: βιωτικός
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: cróga, crógach, cróganta, aerach, beoga, éirimiúil, bíogúil, mear
 * Italian:, ,
 * Latin: alacer, vivāx, vegetus
 * Latvian: možs, mundrs, žirgts, spirgts, ņiprs, kustīgs
 * Maori: hauoraora, kautangatanga
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: livlig
 * Nynorsk: livleg
 * Old Church Slavonic: живъ
 * Polish:, pełen życia
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: aighearach, beò
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , , ,
 * Swedish:
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:


 * Finnish: vaahtoinen
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: fizzy,  foamy

Etymology 2
From, , from , equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1) Vigorously.
 * 2) Vibrantly, vividly.
 * 3)  In a lifelike manner.
 * , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220-1:
 * the Painter Protogenes having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog,  but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture.
 * the Painter Protogenes having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog,  but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Latvian: moži, mundri, žirgti, spirgti, ņipri, kustīgi
 * Polish: z życiem
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish: vívidamente,