Word Meanings - VIVACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. Syn. -- Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light- hearted. -- Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi*va"cious*ness, n. (more info) 1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious

Additional info about word: VIVACIOUS

Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. Syn. -- Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light- hearted. -- Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi*va"cious*ness, n. (more info) 1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor. 2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. "Vivacious nonsense." V. Knox.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VIVACIOUS)

• Alive
• Quick
• living
• breathing
• warm
• lively
• vivacious
• alert
• existing
• existent
• safe
• subsisting
• active
• brisk
• animated
• Animated
• Boused
• excited
• inspirited
• exhilarated
• enlivened
• stirred
• enlivening
• inspiring
• spirited
• Blithe
• Light
• merry
• joyous
• happy
• bright
• elastic
• gladsome
• bonny
• cheerful
• blithesome
• gay
• Jocund
• Merry
• jovial
• gleeful
• careless
• mirthful
• hilarious
• sprightly
• sportive
• joyful
• Lively
• Brisk
• keen
• eager
• blithe
• vivid
• quick
• vigorous

Related words: (words related to VIVACIOUS)

• LIVINGLY
  In a living state. Sir T. Browne.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• LIVELY
  1. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. Chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves. Holland. 2. Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth. But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, With youthful steps Much livelier
• JOVIALITY
  The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• SPIRITUOUS
  1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
• LIGHT
  licht, OHG. lioht, Goth. liuhap, Icel. lj, L. lux light, lucere to 1. That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous. Note: Light was regarded formerly
• LIVRAISON
  A part of a book or literary composition printed and delivered by itself; a number; a part.
• LIVINGNESS
  The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.
• BLITHE
  Gay; merry; sprightly; joyous; glad; cheerful; as, a blithe spirit. The blithe sounds of festal music. Prescott. A daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Milton. (more info) Icel. bli mild, gentle, Dan. & Sw. blid gentle, D. blijd blithe,
• LIVED
  Having life; -- used only in composition; as, long-lived; short-lived.
• EXCITO-MOTION
  Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
• LIVE
  liven, livien, AS. libban, lifian; akin to OS. libbian, D. leven, G. leben, OHG. lebn, Dan. leve, Sw. lefva, Icel. lifa to live, to be left, to remain, Goth. liban to live; akin to E. leave to forsake, and life, Gr. lip to anoint, smear; -- the
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• ANIMATING
  Causing animation; life-giving; inspiriting; rousing. "Animating cries." Pope. -- An"i*ma`ting*ly, adv.
• EXCITABLE
  Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
• JOVIALTY
  Joviality. Barrow.
• EXIST
  exist; ex out + sistere to cause to stand, to set, put, place, stand 1. To be as a fact and not as a mode; to have an actual or real being, whether material or spiritual. Who now, alas! no more is missed Than if he never did exist. Swift.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SPIRITUALIZE
  To extract spirit from; also, to convert into, or impregnate with, spirit. (more info) 1. To refine intellectiually or morally; to purify from the corrupting influence of the world; to give a spiritual character or tendency to; as, to spiritualize
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• POSTEXIST
  To exist after; to live subsequently.
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• GLOBOUS
  Spherical. Milton.