vivacious

Definition

Lively and animated; full of life and energy.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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 ..."