lively
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Is lively a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.Examples: "c. 1600, Philemon Holland chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves"Synonyms: extantarchaic
2. (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.Examples: "I spied the lively picture of my father."Synonyms: lifey, limned, naturalisticarchaic
3. (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.Examples: "From grave to gay, from lively to ſevere, [...]"archaic
4. (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.Synonyms: frothy, spumescent
noun (English)
1. (nautical, informal) Term of address.Examples: "Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in."informal
adv (English)
1. (obsolete) In a lifelike manner.Examples: "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 […]."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary