lively

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈlaɪv.li/    美 /ˈlaɪv.li/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Term of address. informal
    — Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.
形容词 adj.
  1. Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
    — But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haſt, / With youthful ſteps? much livelier then e're while / He ſeems.
  2. Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
    — The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.
  3. Endowed with or manifesting life; living. archaic
    — c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
  4. Representing life; lifelike. archaic
    — I spied the lively picture of my father.
  5. Airy; animated; spirited. archaic
    — From grave to gay, from lively to ſevere, [...]
  6. Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
副词 adv.
  1. Vigorously.
  2. Vibrantly, vividly.
  3. In a lifelike manner. obsolete
    — Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew.

词形变化

livelier comparative liveliest superlative lifely alternative livelies plural lifely alternative more lively comparative most lively superlative

词汇关系

近义词
frisky peppy zestful live vital sprightly
衍生词
livelily liveliness lively as a grig livened look lively overlively unlively step lively

词源

词源 1
From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital”), from Proto-West Germanic *lībalīk (“living, lively”), equivalent to life + -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (“of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like”), Old High German līblīh (“living, animated”), German leiblich (“bodily, corporeal”). Doublet of lifely and lifelike.
词源 2
From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, equivalent to life + -ly.
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