Definition of lively

"lively" in the adjective sense

1. lively

full of life and energy

"a lively discussion"

"lively and attractive parents"

"a lively party"

2. lively, racy

full of zest or vigor

"a racy literary style"

3. alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy

quick and energetic

"a brisk walk in the park"

"a lively gait"

"a merry chase"

"traveling at a rattling rate"

"a snappy pace"

"a spanking breeze"

4. bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy

elastic rebounds readily

"clean bouncy hair"

"a lively tennis ball"

"as resilient as seasoned hickory"

"springy turf"

5. lively

filled with events or activity

"a lively period in history"

6. lively, vital

full of spirit full of life

"a dynamic full of life woman"

"a vital and charismatic leader"

"this whole lively world"

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Quotations for lively

Night is a lively masquerade of day. [ J. Montgomery ]

Happily to steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [ Pope ]

From grave to gay, from lively to severe. [ Pope ]

The lively Diamond drinks thy purest rays.
Collected light, compact. [ Thomson ]

Trade hardly deems the busy day begun,
Till his keen eye along the sheet has run;
The blooming daughter throws her needle by.
And reads her schoolmate's marriage with a sigh;
While the grave mother puts her glasses on.
And gives a tear to some old crony gone.
The preacher, too, his Sunday theme lays down,
To know what last new folly fills the town;
Lively or sad, life's meanest, mightiest things.
The fate of fighting cocks, or fighting kings. [ Sprague ]

Men have less lively perception of good than of evil. [ Livy ]

Emulation is lively and generous, envy base and .malicious. [ Proverb ]

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs. [ Crabbe ]

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors. [ Sir Robert Walpole ]

Lively feeling of situations, and power to express them, make the poet. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Hatred itself may be a praiseworthy emotion if provoked in us by a lively love of good. [ Joubert ]

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Understanding is the wages of a lively faith, and faith is the reward of a humble ignorance. [ Quarles ]

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. [ Atterbury ]

If you ever saw a crow with a kingbird after him, you will get an image of a dull speaker and a lively listener. [ Holmes ]

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. [ Dryden ]

The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections. [ Joubert ]

A human heart can never grow old, if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves. [ Mrs. L. M. Child ]

To elevate and surprise is the great art of quackery and puffing; to raise a lively and exaggerated image in the mind, and take it by surprise before it can recover breath. [ Hazlitt ]

When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer. [ Mme. de Stael ]

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls. [ Montaigne ]

Talent is something, but tact is everything. It is not a seventh sense, but is the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and the lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles. [ W. P. Scargill ]

The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness. [ Zimmermann ]

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely. [ Bacon ]

lively in Scrabble®

The word lively is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 12

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters lively:

LIVELY
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lively in Words With Friends™

The word lively is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 14

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters lively:

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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In lively

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Words within the letters of lively

2 letter words in lively (2 words)

3 letter words in lively (7 words)

4 letter words in lively (8 words)

5 letter words in lively (1 word)

6 letter words in lively (Anagrams) (3 words)

lively + 2 blanks (5 words)

Words containing the sequence lively

Words that start with lively (1 word)

Words with lively in them (1 word)

Words that end with lively (1 word)

Word Growth involving lively

Shorter words in lively

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Longer words containing lively

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