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| Main Entry: | frisky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | full of spirit |
| Synonyms: | active, antic, bouncy, coltish, dashing, feeling one's oats, frolicsome, full of beans*, gamesome, high-spirited, in high spirits, jumpy, kittenish*, larkish, lively, peppy, playful, prankish, rollicking, romping, spirited, sportive, wicked, zesty, zippy |
| Antonyms: | depressed, down, lifeless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | agile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | physically or mentally nimble, deft |
| Synonyms: | active, acute, alert, athletic, brisk, buoyant, clever, dexterous, energetic, fleet, frisky, limber, lithe, lively, mercurial, prompt, quick, quick-witted, rapid, ready, sharp, spirited, sportive, sprightly, spry, stirring, supple, swift, vigorous, vivacious, winged, zippy, bustling, easy-moving, quick on the draw, quick on the trigger, spright, twinkle toes |
| Antonyms: | brittle, clumsy, stiff |
| Main Entry: | feisty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | spirited; touchy |
| Synonyms: | active, alive, bubbly, courageous, difficult, enthusiastic, excitable, fiery, frisky, game, gritty, gutsy, high-strung, lively, mettlesome, ornery, peppy, quarrelsome, sensitive, spunky, thin-skinned, tough, truculent, full of pep, gutty, hot-blooded, scrappy, zestful |
| Main Entry: | frolicsome |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
| Synonyms: | antic, frisky, fun, gay, gleeful, happy, impish, jocular, jovial, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, roguish, rollicking, sportive, sprightly, coltish, gamesome |
| Antonyms: | serious, staid, stiff |
| Main Entry: | jaunty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lively |
| Synonyms: | airy, animated, bold, brash, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, cocky, dapper, dashing, debonair, devil-may-care*, devilish, easy, exhilarated, flip*, flippant, forward, free, fresh, frisky, frolicsome, gay, high-spirited, hilarious, impetuous, impish, impudent, jocose, joking, jolly, jovial, light, natty, nervy, perky, playful, provocative, reckless, rollicking, self-confident, showy, smart, sportive, sporty, sprightly, spruce, trim, venturesome, vivacious, gamesome, prankish, swaggering |
| Antonyms: | depressed, lethargic, lifeless |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jumpy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | nervous |
| Synonyms: | agitated, antsy*, anxious, apprehensive, creepy*, excitable, excited, fidgety, frisky, high-strung*, jittery, on edge*, restless, sensitive, shaky, skittish, tense, timorous, on pins and needles, spooked, unrestful |
| Antonyms: | calm, collected, composed, laid-back, easy-going |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lively |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | energetic, active, busy |
| Synonyms: | agile, alert, animate, animated, astir, blithe, bright, brisk, buoyant, cheerful, chipper*, complex, dashing, driving, effervescent, enjoyable, enterprising, entertaining, festive, frisky, frolicsome, gay, happy, industrious, involved, jocund, jumping, keen, merry, nimble, peppy*, perky, pert, provocative, quick, refreshing, rousing, snappy, sparkling, spirited, sprightly, spry, stimulating, stirring, vigorous, vivacious, zippy*, blithesome, bouncy, bustling, buzzing, chirpy, full of pep, go-go, hyper |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, dispirited, inactive, lethargic, lifeless, sleepy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | playful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny, fun-loving |
| Synonyms: | antic, blithe, cheerful, coltish, comical, elvish, feeling one's oats, flirtatious, frisky, frolicsome, full of pep, gamesome, gay, good-natured, impish, jaunty, jesting, jocund, joking, joyous, lighthearted, lively, merry, mirthful, mischievous, prankish, puckish, rollicking, snappy, spirited, sportive, sprightly, teasing, tongue-in-cheek*, vivacious, waggish, whimsical, zippy* |
| Antonyms: | humorless, serious, working |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rollicking |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fun-loving, lively |
| Synonyms: | antic, boisterous, carefree, cheerful, devil-may-care*, exuberant, frisky, frolicsome, glad, happy, hearty, jaunty, jovial, joyful, joyous, lighthearted, merry, playful, spirited, sportive, sprightly, cavorting, rip-roaring, romping |
| Antonyms: | serious, solemn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rousing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | stirring |
| Synonyms: | active, alert, animated, astir, bright, brisk, buoyant, busy, dashing, energetic, enthusiastic, frisky, industrious, jumping, lively, peppy*, perky, refreshing, snappy, spirited, spry, stimulating, vigorous, zippy*, bouncy, bustling, buzzing, chirpy, full of pep, hyper |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sporting/sportive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful and fair |
| Synonyms: | antic, considerate, devil-may-care*, frisky, frolicsome, game, gay, generous, impish, jaunty, joyous, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, rollicking, sprightly, square, wild, coltish, full of fun, gamesome, larkish, sportspersonlike |
| Antonyms: | unfair, unplayful, unsporting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sporting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | playful |
| Synonyms: | antic, considerate, devil-may-care, fair, frisky, frolicsome, game, gay, generous, gentlemanly, impish, jaunty, joyous, kittenish, lively, merry, mischievous, reasonable, roguish, rollicking, sportive, sprightly, square, waggish, wild, coltish, gamesome, larkish, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, square dealing, square shooting, straight shooting |
| Antonyms: | unsporting |
| Main Entry: | active |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very involved in activity |
| Synonyms: | aggressive, agile, alert, alive, animated, assiduous, bold, brisk, busy, chipper, daring, dashing, determined, dexterous, diligent, dynamic, eager, energetic, engaged, enterprising, enthusiastic, eventful, forceful, forcible, fresh, frisky, high-spirited, industrious, intense, inventive, jumping, keen, lively, nimble, perky, persevering, purposeful, pushing, quick, rapid, ready, resolute, sharp, sprightly, spry, whiz*, zealous, bustling, enlivened, fireball, hard-working, hyper, on the move |
| Notes: | active knowledge is the knowledge of a language which a user actively employs in speech or writing, as opposed to passive knowledge, which is what a person understands in what he/she hears or reads |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, idle, indifferent, lazy, quiescent, quiet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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acting, light, Rabelaisian, activable, active, afoot, agile, agoing, alert, alive, alive and frisking, animated, assiduous, astir, at call, at work, brisk, brisk as a bee, brisk as a lark, broad awake, businesslike, bustling, busy, busy as a bee, busy as a hen with one chicken, diligent, do, doing, enterprising, eventful, expeditious, extradictionary, fast, forward, frisky, full of business, fussy, in action, in earnest, in full swing, in harness, in operation, indefatigable, industrious, intent, meddlesome, meddling, motatorious, never tired, nimble, nimble as a squirrel, notable, nutational, occupied, officious, on duty, on the alert, on the anvil, overofficious, painstaking, pantopragmatic, plodding, pottering, pushing, quick, quick as a lamplighter, resolute, restless, restless as a hyena, sedulous, sharp, smart, spirited, sprack, spry, stirring, strenuous, tripping, undertaking, unsleeping, unwearied, up and doing, vivacious, wide awake, work a day, working, zealous
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| Main Entry: | elasticity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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| Main Entry: | happiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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hopeful, light, Abderian, airy, all alive, allegro, animated, blithe, blithesome, bonny, bright, brisk, brisk as a bee, buoyant, buxom, canty, cardiac, cardiacal, cheerful, cheering, cheerly, cheery, cock, elate, elated, essorant, exhilarating, exultant, exulting, flushed, free and easy, frisky, frolicsome, full of play, full of spirit, gamesome, gay as a lark, gelastic, gelogenic, gleesome, happy, happy as a king, happy as the day is long, heartsome, hilarious, in good spirits, in high feather, in high spirits, in spirits, inspiriting, janty, jaunty, jocose, jocular, jocund, jolly, jolly as a sand boy, jolly as a thrush, jovial, joyful, joyous, jubilant, laughable, laughing, laughter, lively, merry, merry as a cricket, merry as a grig, merry as a marriage, mirthful, mirthloving, of good cheer, ovant, palmy, playful, playful as a kitten, playsome, pleasing, rattling, ready to burst with laughter, ready to die with laughter, ready to split with laughter, rejoicing, rident, ridibund, risible, risorial, rollicking, smiling, sparkling, spirited, spiritful, sportive, sprightful, sprightly, spry, subrident, subrisive, sunny, tricksy, triumphant, unsoulclogged, vivacious, waggish, winsome
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