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| Main Entry: | liveliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animation |
| Synonyms: | action, activity, energy, vigor, vitality, briskness, spiritedness |
| Main Entry: | agility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental nimbleness, deftness |
| Synonyms: | activity, acuteness, adroitness, alacrity, alertness, celerity, cleverness, dexterity, dispatch, expedition, liveliness, promptness, quickness, swiftness, briskness, fleetness, friskiness, litheness, promptitude, quickwittedness, sharpness, sprightliness, spryness, suppleness |
| Antonyms: | clumsiness, stiffness |
| Main Entry: | bounce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spring |
| Synonyms: | animation, bound, elasticity, energy, give, go, life, liveliness, pep, rebound, recoil, resilience, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zip, dynamism, springiness |
| Main Entry: | ebullience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | agitation, animation, buoyancy, effervescence, elation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, ferment, gaiety, liveliness, vitality, vivacity, zest, effusiveness, exuberancy, high spirits, high-spiritedness, vivaciousness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | exhilaration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, excitement |
| Synonyms: | animation, cheerfulness, delight, elation, elevation, euphoria, exaltation, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, inspiration, joy, liveliness, mirth, stimulation, uplift, vivacity, a rush, electrification, enlivenment, excitation, firing, galvanization, gleefulness, head rush, high spirits, invigoration, joyfulness, quickening, sprightliness, vitalization, vivification |
| Antonyms: | agitation, depression, discouragement, unhappiness, upset, worry |
| Main Entry: | gaiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness, celebration |
| Synonyms: | animation, brightness, cheer, color, conviviality, effervescence, elation, entertainment, exhilaration, festivity, frolic, fun, geniality, gladness, glee, glitter, good humor*, hilarity, joie de vivre, jollity, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merrymaking, mirth, radiance, revel, revelry, shindig*, sparkle, sport, vivacity, blitheness, brilliance, colorfulness, grins, high spirits, joviality, joyousness, pleasantness, reveling, showiness, sprightliness, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, solemnity, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | glee |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme happiness |
| Synonyms: | cheerfulness, delight, elation, enjoyment, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, fun, gaiety, gladness, hilarity, jollity, joy, liveliness, merriment, mirth, pleasure, triumph, verve, blitheness, delectation, jocularity, joviality, joyfulness, joyousness, sprightliness |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, sadness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | joy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | great happiness, pleasure |
| Synonyms: | amusement, animation, bliss, charm, cheer, comfort, delight, diversion, ecstasy, elation, exultation, felicity, festivity, frolic, fruition, gaiety, gem, gladness, glee, good humor, gratification, hilarity, humor, indulgence, jewel, liveliness, luxury, merriment, mirth, pride, prize, rapture, refreshment, rejoicing, revelry, satisfaction, solace, sport, transport, treasure, treat, wonder, alleviation, delectation, exulting, jubilance, pride and joy, ravishment, regalement |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe |
| Main Entry: | merriment/merrymaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enjoyment, amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, cheerfulness, conviviality, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla*, indulgence, jollity, joy, laughter, levity, liveliness, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, buffoonery, fun and games, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, laughs, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | sadness, sorrow, unhappiness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oomph |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, dash, drive, effectiveness, endurance, exertion, fire, force, fortitude, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, punch, spirit, stamina, steam, strength, vigor, vim, virility, vitality, zeal, zest, zing, zip, birr, forcefulness, get-up-and-go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pep |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vim, vigor |
| Synonyms: | animation, bang, energy, go, gusto, hardihood, life, liveliness, moxie*, potency, punch*, push, snap*, spirit, starch*, tuck*, verve, vitality, vivacity, zip*, birr, get-up-and-go, high spirits |
| Antonyms: | apathy, lethargy, inactivity, lifelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pizzazz |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy; flamboyance |
| Synonyms: | élan, ability, animation, aptitude, bounce, dash, drive, effectiveness, fire, force, gift, hustle, intensity, juice, knack, life, liveliness, moxie*, muscle, oomph*, panache, pep, pluck, potency, power, presence, punch, push, shine*, spirit, splash*, spunk, stamina, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip*, forcefulness, get-up-and-go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | speed |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rate of motion, often a high rate |
| Synonyms: | acceleration, activity, agility, alacrity, breeze, celerity, clip, dispatch, eagerness, expedition, gait, haste, headway, hurry, hustle, lick, liveliness, momentum, pace, precipitation, promptness, quickness, rapidity, readiness, rush, rustle, snap, steam, swiftness, urgency, velocity, briskness, fleetness, legerity, precipitancy, promptitude, rapidness |
| Notes: | speed is the distance an object travels during a unit of time; velocity is the distance an object travels in a specified direction during a unit of time |
| Main Entry: | verve |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | élan, activity, ardor, dash, drive, endurance, fire, force, go, gumption, gusto, hardihood, intensity, juice, liveliness, moxie*, passion, pep, pizzazz, pluck, power, punch, sparkle, spirit, spunk, stamina, steam, strength, vigor, vim, virility, vitality, zeal, zest, zing, zip*, forcefulness, get-up-and-go, toughness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vigor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, energy |
| Synonyms: | ability, action, activity, agility, alertness, bang*, bounce, capability, capacity, dash, drive, endurance, enterprise, exercise, fire, force, go*, intensity, juice*, kick*, liveliness, might, motion, moxie*, muscle*, nimbleness, pep*, pith, potency, puissance, punch*, push, quickness, snap*, sock, soundness, starch*, steam*, strength, tuck*, urgency, vehemence, vim, vitality, well-being, zing*, zip*, birr, dynamism, get-up-and-go, hardiness, healthiness, lustiness |
| Antonyms: | idleness, lethargy, weakness, enervation, inactivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vitality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | energy, spirit |
| Synonyms: | animation, ardor, audacity, bang, being, bloom, bounce, clout, continuity, drive, endurance, existence, exuberance, fervor, force, go, guts*, intensity, life, liveliness, pep, pizzazz*, power, pulse, punch, snap, sparkle, spunk*, stamina, starch*, steam, strength, stuff*, verve, vigor, vim, vivacity, zest, zing*, zip*, get-up-and-go, lustiness, robustness, venturesomeness, vivaciousness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, lethargy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | zip |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm, energy |
| Synonyms: | drive, go*, gusto, life, liveliness, oomph*, pep, pizzazz*, punch, sparkle, spirit, verve, vigor, vim, vitality, zest, zing*, brio, get-up-and-go |
| Antonyms: | apathy, idleness, laziness, lethargy, enervation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cheerfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, cheer, cheerfulness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, hilarity, joy, liveliness, merriment, mirth, optimism, solace, cheeriness, good cheer, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joyousness, light-heartedness |
| Antonyms: | gloom, sadness, cheerlessness |
| Main Entry: | merriment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amusement |
| Synonyms: | brawl, cheerfulness, conviviality, enjoyment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, glee, happiness, hilarity, hoopla, indulgence, jollity, joy, laughter, levity, liveliness, merrymaking, mirth, picnic, recreation, revel, revelry, self-indulgence, shindig, sport, tomfoolery, buffoonery, grins, jocularity, jocundity, joviality, laughs, whoopee, wingding |
| Antonyms: | gloom, misery |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, game, happening, haste, hoopla*, 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, ballgame, big idea, functioning, going, hopper, in the works |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inaction, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage, inactivity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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