Definition of "lively" in English

adjective

1. Full of life; energetic, vivacious.

2. Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.

3. (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

   • c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves

4. (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.

5. (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.

6. (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.

noun

1. (nautical, informal) Term of address.

adverb

1. Vigorously.

2. Vibrantly, vividly.

3. (obsolete) In a lifelike manner.

   • the Painter Protogenes […] having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog, […] but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture […].