vivacious

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vivacious

  • /vaɪˈveɪ.ʃəs/
  • /vəˈveɪ.ʃəs/
  • /vɪˈveɪ.ʃəs/

Rhymes with -eɪʃəs

Where it comes from

From Latin vīvāx (“lively, vigorous”) + -acious, from vīvere (“to live”).

adjective more vivacious · most vivacious

  1. Lively and animated; full of life and energy. Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe t

    Similar: animated, bubbly, ebullient, high-spirited, lively, vibrant, exciting, effervescent, spicy

  2. obsolete Long-lived. Hitherto the English bishops had been vivacious almost to wonder. For, necessarily presumed of good years before entering on their office, in the first of queen Elizabeth it was much that but five died for the first twenty years of her reign.
  3. rare Difficult to kill.

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adj lively and animated

Españolvivaz
中文活潑 /活泼 huópo, 精神 jīngshen
Portuguêsvivaz
Françaisvivace
Deutschlebhaft
Italianovivace
Русскийживо́й živój, оживлённый oživljónnyj, жизнерадостный žizneradostnyj

adj long-lived

Españolvivaz
中文長命 /长命 chángmìng, 長久 /长久 chángjiǔ
Deutschlanglebig
Русскиймноголе́тний mnogolétnij

adj difficult to kill

中文很難殺死 /很难杀死 hěn nán shāsǐ
Deutschlanglebig
Русскийживучий živučij

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@misc{vivacious_2026,
  title = {vivacious},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/vivacious},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}