perky

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
perky
    adj 1: characterized by liveliness and lightheartedness;
           "buoyant spirits"; "his quick wit and chirpy humor";
           "looking bright and well and chirpy"; "a perky little
           widow in her 70s" [syn: {buoyant}, {chirpy}, {perky}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Perky \Perk"y\, a.
   Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
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         There amid perky larches and pines.      --Tennyson.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "perky":
      active, activist, activistic, aggressively self-confident, airy,
      alive, animated, biggety, bouncing, bouncy, breezy, bright,
      bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, brisk, bubbly, bumptious, buoyant,
      carefree, cheerful, cheery, chesty, chipper, cocky, conceited,
      corky, debonair, ebullient, effervescent, energetic, free and easy,
      frisky, full of go, full of life, full of pep, gay, immodest,
      invigorated, jaunty, know-it-all, light, lighthearted, lightsome,
      live, lively, mercurial, militant, obtrusive, overwise, peacockish,
      peacocky, peppy, perk, pert, puffed up, quicksilver, resilient,
      self-conceited, self-opinionated, smacking, smart-alecky, snappy,
      spanking, spirited, sprightly, spry, stuck-up, swelled-headed,
      vigorous, vitalized, vivacious, zingy

    

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