Category:Vivacious

Vi*va"cious, a. Etym: [l. vívax, -acis, fr. vivere to live. See Vivid.]

1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. [obs.] Hitherto the english bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [queen Elizabeth's] reign. Fuller. The faith of christianity is far more vivacious than any mere Ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor.

2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious Poet. "vivacious nonsense." V. Knox.

3. (bot.)

Defn: living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [r.]

Syn. -- sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light- Hearted. -- vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- vi*va"cious*ness, n.