(n.) The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age.
(n.) An appearance of life, animation, or spirit; as, the liveliness of the eye or the countenance in a portrait.
(n.) Briskness; activity; effervescence, as of liquors.
Example Sentences:
(1) May 28, 2014 Other players have looked livelier tonight for sure, and he's taken one too many touches on occasion, but there was a glimpse of Altidore's value in his hold up play just now.
(2) Faced with a housing market in the south-east of England that is livelier than a Brazilian beach carnival, Mr Osborne has decided to grant new powers to the Bank of England to cap mortgages, by either limiting the amount buyers can borrow compared to their income or by restricting the proportion of a house price that can be paid with a mortgage.
(3) Some believe that officials are seeking to protect state broadcaster CCTV as it loses viewers to slicker, livelier provincial upstarts such as Hunan and Jiangsu Television.
(4) But physical liveliness, being able to tell jokes, that is not about sexuality.
(5) Yet sometimes a little decay here and there, some graffiti, flyers posted on walls and lampposts, can add liveliness to what would otherwise be a drab urban experience.
(6) "It's reminded me of when we went to the San Siro to play AC Milan except Joe [Jordan] didn't get nutted by [Gennaro] Gattuso," he said, recalling his Tottenham days and ensuring the post-match entertainment proved livelier than the fare on the pitch.
(7) As she describes her elastic band theory, her gestures get livelier.
(8) The disorder manifests itself as the disappearance of inner liveliness and as a diffuse dissociation of the entire representional world, which I have characterized as the disappearance of psychic transparence.
(9) The patients were less sleepy, livelier and less agitated in the isoflurane group in the first hour of recovery.
(10) Live bands play regularly, and if you're in family-friendly Les Houches rather than knees-up Chamonix, you'll be thankful for a bit of liveliness.
(11) "It's like Bob Dylan's never-ending tour," I suggest, though arguably Dylan might balk at sharing a bill with ventriloquist Roger De Courcey at Aylesbury rugby club, the scene of one of Farage's livelier recent outings.
(12) By linking themselves with American social scientists such as Richard Thaler and Robert Cialdini , the Tory high command has managed to cast itself as the new home of intellectual energy in British politics – so much livelier than that sleep-deprived lot over in Downing Street.
(13) These scales were called Depression (Anxiety), Hostility, Boredom, Liveliness, Well Being, Friendliness, Concentration and Startle.
(14) Results indicate that Factor C (high ego strength), Factor F (liveliness and enthusiasm), Factor H (venturesomeness), Factor Q1 (experimenting), Factor Q3 (high self-concept integration), Factor Q4 (tenseness), Factor QII (anxiety) are significantly related to one or more index of success (satisfaction, size of practice, income and professional advancement).
(15) Variations on the theme were explored to rather livelier effect in David Cronenberg's Tinseltown satire Maps to the Stars .
(16) For many, especially among the idealists of Momentum who held their own, much livelier conference this week, Labour has to be a social movement that works to change public attitudes on migration and much else – even if that takes a generation.
(17) The immediate task for the tandem, then, is to ensure a semblance of liveliness around parliamentary elections on 4 December.
(18) The New York section will advance the movement under Thomson's guidance away from the old Wall Street Journal, a crusty financial organ, towards a livelier general interest paper.
(19) Cardinale is only in the movie for a few scenes, but she still exudes the same liveliness and warmth she did in her youth.
(20) The child's liveliness, sociability, and poor appetite during infancy and childhood were positively related to the adult Type A irritability and hurried behavior clusters, as were the mother's liveliness, orderliness, and intelligence as rated by psychologists during the child's first 6 years.
Lively
Definition:
(superl.) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
(superl.) Brisk; vivacious; active; as, a lively youth.
(adv.) In a brisk, active, or animated manner; briskly; vigorously.
(adv.) With strong resemblance of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, as other patients who lived at the periphery of the Valserine valley do not appear to be related to any patients living in the valley, and because there has been considerable immigration into the valley, a number of hypotheses to explain the distribution of the disease in the region remain possible.
(2) For some time now, public opinion polls have revealed Americans' strong preference to live in comparatively small cities, towns, and rural areas rather than in large cities.
(3) It afflicted 312,000 people and claimed 3200 lives.
(4) "As the investigation remains live and in order to preserve the integrity of that investigation, it would not be appropriate to offer further comment."
(5) In this article we report the survival and morbidity rates for all live-born infants weighing 501 to 1000 gram at birth and born to residents of a defined geographic region from 1977 to 1980 (n = 255) compared with 1981 to 1984 (n = 266).
(6) An “out” vote would severely disrupt our lives, in an economic sense and a private sense.
(7) This time is approximately six months for the neuroleptics given orally, one month for antidepressants, and five and a half half-lives for benzodiazepines.
(8) Since 1987, it has become possible to obtain immature ova from the living animal and to let them mature, fertilize and develop into embryos capable of transplantation outside the body.
(9) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(10) Issues such as healthcare and the NHS, food banks, energy and the general cost of living were conspicuous by their absence.
(11) Q In radioactive decay, different materials decay at different rates, giving different half lives.
(12) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(13) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(14) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(15) What we’re doing is designed to improve people’s lives.” "I don't see race, colour or creed, and neither do my children," he added.
(16) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(17) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(18) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(19) It became just like a soap opera: "When Brookside started it was about Scousers living next to each other and in five years' time there were bombs going off and three people buried under the patio."
(20) The Coalition promises to add more misery to their lives.