vivacious

vivacious
    adj 1: vigorous and animated; "a vibrant group that challenged
           the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a
           vivacious folk dance" [syn: {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.]
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            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.
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            The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than
            any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be.
                                                  --I. Taylor.
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   2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a
      vivacious poet. "Vivacious nonsense." --V. Knox.
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   3. (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year;
      perennial. [R.]
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   Syn: Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry;
        jocund; light-hearted.
        [1913 Webster] -- {Vi*va"cious*ly}, adv. --
        {Vi*va"cious*ness}, n.
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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