lively

Full of life; energetic, vivacious.

But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haſt, / With youthful ſteps? much livelier then e're while / He ſeems.

[...] St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of railway viaducts, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.

Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.

The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.

His faith must be not only living, but lively too.

Endowed with or manifesting life; living.

c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves

Representing life; lifelike.

I spied the lively picture of my father.

Airy; animated; spirited.

From grave to gay, from lively to ſevere, [...]

Term of address.

Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.

Vigorously.

Vibrantly, vividly.

In a lifelike manner.

Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew.

the Painter Protogenes […] having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog, […] but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture […].