| Main Entry: | liveliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animation |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, briskness, energy, spiritedness, vigor, vitality |
| Main Entry: | liveliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit |
Synonyms: |
activity, alacrity, animation, brio, briskness, effervescence, esprit, lilt, pep, sparkle, sprightliness, tittup, vim, vivacity |
Antonyms: |
dispiritedness |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
Synonyms: |
activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, ballgame, big idea, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, functioning, game, going, happening, haste, hoopla*, hopper, in the works, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity |
Antonyms: |
cessation, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being active |
Synonyms: |
action, activeness, animation, bustle, enterprise, exercise, exertion, hustle, labor, life, liveliness, motion, movement |
Antonyms: |
idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness |
| Main Entry: | agility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental nimbleness, deftness |
Synonyms: |
activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, briskness, celerity, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, fleetness, friskiness, litheness, liveliness, promptitude, promptness, quickness, quickwittedness, sharpness, sprightliness, spryness, suppleness, swiftness |
Antonyms: |
clumsiness, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | bounce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spring |
Synonyms: |
animation, bound, dynamism, elasticity, energy, give, go, life, liveliness, pep, rebound, recoil, resilience, springiness, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zip |
| Main Entry: | buoyancy/buoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lightness in spirit |
Synonyms: |
animation, bounce, cheerfulness, cheeriness, ebullience, effervescence, exuberance, gaiety, good feeling, good humor, happiness, high spirits, jollity, liveliness, pep, spiritedness, sunniness, vim and vigor, zing, zip |
Antonyms: |
blues, depression, heaviness |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
Synonyms: |
animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merry-making, mirth, optimism, solace |
Antonyms: |
depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | ebullience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
agitation, animation, buoyancy, effervescence, effusiveness, elation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exuberancy, ferment, gaiety, high spirits, high-spiritedness, liveliness, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, zest |
Antonyms: |
apathy, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | effervescence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, vivacity |
Synonyms: |
animation, buoyancy, ebullience, excitedness, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exuberancy, gaiety, happiness, high spirits, joy, liveliness, vim, vitality, volatility, zing |
Antonyms: |
dullness, flatness |