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vivacious 音标拼音: [vəv'eʃəs] a. 活泼的,快活的,多年生的 活泼的,快活的,多年生的 vivacious adj 1: vigorous and animated; " a vibrant group that challenged the system"; " a charming and vivacious hostess"; " a vivacious folk dance" [ synonym: { vibrant}, { vivacious}] Vivacious \ Vi* va" cious\ (?; 277), a. [ L. v[' i] vax, - acis, fr. vivere to live. See { Vivid}.] 1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long- lived. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [ Queen Elizabeth' s] reign. -- Fuller. [ 1913 Webster] The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. -- I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. " Vivacious nonsense." -- V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light- hearted. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Vi* va" cious* ly}, adv. -- { Vi* va" cious* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 112 Moby Thesaurus words for " vivacious": active, activist, activistic, acute, aggressive, agog, alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, animate, animated, antic, anxious, avid, blithe, bouncing, bouncy, breathless, breezy, brisk, bubbly, buoyant, bursting to, cant, capersome, cheerful, chipper, coltish, desirous, dynamic, eager, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, exuberant, forceful, forcible, forward, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gamesome, gay, go- go, happy, hearty, high- spirited, impatient, impetuous, incisive, intense, jaunty, keen, kinetic, light- hearted, live, lively, living, lusty, mercurial, merry, mettlesome, militant, panting, peppy, perky, pert, piquant, playful, poignant, prompt, pungent, quick, quicksilver, racy, raring to, ready, ready and willing, robust, rollicking, rollicksome, rompish, skittish, smacking, snappy, spanking, sparkling, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, strenuous, strong, sunny, take- charge, take- over, trenchant, up, vibrant, vigorous, vital, vivid, zestful, zesty, zingy, zippy
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