Usually means: Full of energy and spirit.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word lively:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lively: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lively: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lively: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lively: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lively: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lively, lively: Wordnik
  7. lively: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lively, lively: Wiktionary
  9. lively: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lively: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lively: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lively, lively: Dictionary.com
  13. lively: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lively: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lively (disambiguation), Lively (surname), Lively: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lively: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lively: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lively: Rhymezone
  19. lively: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lively: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lively: Free Dictionary
  22. lively: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lively: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lively: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lively: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lively: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LIVELY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lively, the lively: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  2. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See livelier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Full of life; energetic, vivacious.
adjective:  Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
adjective:  (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
adjective:  (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
adjective:  (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
adjective:  (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
noun:  (nautical, informal) Term of address.
adverb:  Vigorously.
adverb:  Vibrantly, vividly.
adverb:  (obsolete) In a lifelike manner.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An urban area of Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Benton County, Missouri.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kaufman County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Lancaster County, Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia.

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