vivacious

From Latin vīvāx, vīvāci- (“lively, vigorous”) + -ous, from vīvere (“to live”).^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /vaɪˈveɪʃəs/, /vɪˈveɪʃəs/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

vivacious (comparative more vivacious, superlative most vivacious)

1. Lively and animated; full of life and energy.
   • 1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, volume 2, Oxford University Press, pages 459–460:

     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 that the xenial relation was not less vivacious than that of blood.

   • 1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN:

     Given the vivacious young redhead's attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He'd seen something in her ...

2. (obsolete) Long-lived.
3. (rare) Difficult to kill.

• (lively and animated): animated, bubbly, ebullient, high-spirited, lively, vibrant, exciting, effervescent

• vivaciousness

• “vivacious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vivacious”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “vivacious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.