Thesaurus: vivacious

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1. a. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
2. a. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
3. a. Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.
4. adj. vigorous and animated
5. 1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [Obs.] 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. The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor. 2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. "Vivacious nonsense." V. Knox. 3. (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [R.] Syn. -- Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light- hearted. -- Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi*va"cious*ness, n.
6. Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.[R.]
7. j:100 s vigorous and animated