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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vīvāx (“lively, vigorous”) (with the suffix -ious), from vīvere (“to live”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
vivacious (comparative more vivacious, superlative most vivacious)
- Lively and animated; full of life and energy.
- (obsolete) Long-lived.
- (rare) Difficult to kill.
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Translations
lively and animated
- Bulgarian: жив (bg) (živ), оживен (bg) (oživen)
- Catalan: vivaç
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 活潑／活泼 (zh) (huópo), 精神 (zh) (jīngshen)
- Czech: čilý (cs), čiperný
- Dutch: levendig (nl)
- Finnish: eloisa (fi), pirteä (fi)
- French: vivace (fr)
- Galician: vivaz
- Georgian: ცოცხალი (cocxali), ცხოველი (cxoveli), სიცოცხლისმოყვარული (sicocxlismoq̇varuli), მხიარული (mxiaruli)
- German: lebhaft (de)
- Irish: móraigeanta
- Italian: vivace (it)
- Latin: vīvāx
- Latvian: spirgts, žirgts, možs, mundrs
- Macedonian: жив (živ), ве́сел (vésel), по́движен (pódvižen)
- Maori: ngangahau
- Persian: سرزنده (fa) (sarzende)
- Portuguese: vivaz (pt)
- Russian: живо́й (ru) (živój), оживлённый (ru) (oživljónnyj), жизнерадостный (ru) (žizneradostnyj)
- Serbo-Croatian: živahan (sh)
- Spanish: vivaz (es)
- Swedish: livfull (sv), livlig (sv)
- Turkish: hayat dolu (tr)
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References
Further reading
- “vivacious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “vivacious”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “vivacious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.