Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haſt, / With youthful ſteps? much livelier then e're while / He ſeems.
Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.
Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
Term of address.
Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.
Vigorously.
Vibrantly, vividly.
In a lifelike manner.
A characteristical surname.
An urban area of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital”), from Proto-West Germanic *lībalīk (“living, lively”), equivalent to life + -ly. Cog...
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Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew.