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vivacious - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Adjective

vivacious (comparative more vivacious, superlative most vivacious)

• Lively and animated; full of life and energy.
  • ✤ Thus then society is not arranged in clans, but in tribes, united by the general sense of a common name, a common abode, a common history, a common religion, and a remote sense of a common tribal stock, without any sense of personal affinity in each individual case. Again, it is curious to observe that the xenial relation was not less vivacious than that of blood.¹
  • ✤ She made reasonable progress, entertained for me a vivacious, though perhaps not very profound, affection; and by her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other’s society.²
  • ✤ Given the vivacious young redhead’s attractiveness, some might have assumed he had more than simply professional reasons for sheepdogging her career, but they would have been wrong. He’d seen something in her…³
• (obsolete) Long-lived.
  • ✤ Hitherto the English bishops had been vivacious almost to wonder. For, necessarily presumed of good years before entering on their office, in the first of queen Elizabeth it was much that but five died for the first twenty years of her reign.⁴
• (rare) Difficult to kill.

Etymology

From Latin vīvāx (“lively, vigorous”) +‎ -acious, from vīvere (“to live”).⁵⁶

Pronunciation

• IPA: /vaɪˈveɪ.ʃəs/, /vəˈveɪ.ʃəs/, /vɪˈveɪ.ʃəs/
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• Rhymes: -eɪʃəs

Printed 2026-09-04.

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Footnotes

1. 1858, W. E. Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, volume 2, Oxford University Press, pages 459–460: ↩

2. 1864, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, New York: Carleton, pages 112-113: ↩

3. 1999, David Weber, Echoes of Honor, Baen Publishing Enterprises, →ISBN: ↩

4. 1842, Thomas Fuller, D.D., The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year MDCXLVIII. ‎${}^{[1]}$, THIRD edition, volume II, London, page 516: ↩

5. “vivacious, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000. ↩

6. Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “vivacious (adj.)”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. ↩

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