| Main Entry: | pep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vim, vigor |
Synonyms: |
animation, bang, birr, energy, get-up-and-go, go, gusto, hardihood, high spirits, life, liveliness, moxie*, potency, punch*, push, snap*, spirit, starch, tuck, verve, vitality, vivacity, zip |
Antonyms: |
apathy, inactivity, lethargy, lifelessness |
| Main Entry: | animation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liveliness; activity |
Synonyms: |
action, ardor, bounce, brio, briskness, buoyancy, dash, dynamism, ebullience, elation, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, gaiety, high spirits, life, oomph, passion, pep, sparkle, spirit, sprightliness, verve, vibrancy, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
Antonyms: |
discouragement, dullness, inactivity |
| 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: | drive |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's will to achieve |
Synonyms: |
ambition, clout, effort, energy, enterprise, fire in belly, get-up-and-go, goods*, gumption*, guts*, impellent, impetus, impulse, initiative, momentum, motivation, motive, moxie*, pep, pressure, punch*, push*, right stuff, spunk*, steam, stuff*, vigor, vitality, what it takes, zip |
| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's spirit and vigor |
Synonyms: |
activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
Antonyms: |
idleness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, tiredness |
| Main Entry: | enthusiasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | keen interest, excitement |
Synonyms: |
activity, ardency, ardor, avidity, conviction, craze, dash, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, ecstasy, emotion, energy, exhilaration, fad, fanaticism, feeling, fervor, fever, fieriness, fire, flame, flare, frenzy, fury, gaiety, glow, go*, heat, hilarity, hobby, impetuosity, intensity, interest, joy, joyfulness, keenness, life, mania, mirth, nerve, oomph, orgasm, passion, pep, rapture, red heat, relish, snap, spirit, transport, vehemence, verve, vim, vivacity, warmth, zeal, zealousness, zest, élan |
Antonyms: |
aloofness, apathy, coldness, coolness, doubt, indifference, lethargy, pessimism, weariness |
| Main Entry: | exuberance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
abandon, animation, ardor, bounce, buoyancy, cheerfulness, eagerness, ebullience, effervescence, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, friskiness, gayness, get up and go, high spirits, juice*, life, liveliness, pep, pepper, spirit, sprightliness, vigor, vitality, zap, zest*, zip |
Antonyms: |
discouragement, lifelessness |
| Main Entry: | fire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animation, vigor |
Synonyms: |
ardor, brio, calenture, dash, drive, eagerness, energy, enthusiasm, excitement, exhilaration, fervency, fervor, force, ginger, gusto, heartiness, heat, impetuosity, intensity, life, light, liveliness, luster, passion, pep, punch*, radiance, red heat, scintillation, snap*, sparkle, spirit, splendor, starch, verve, vim, virtuosity, vivacity, white heat, zeal, zing, zip, élan |
Antonyms: |
apathy, dullness, lethargy, spiritlessness |
| Main Entry: | go |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spirit, vitality |
Synonyms: |
activity, animation, bang, birr, drive, energy, force, get-up-and-go, hardihood, life, moxie*, oomph, pep, potency, push, snap*, starch, tuck, verve, vigor, vivacity, zest |