VIVACIOUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vivacious mean? 

• VIVACIOUS (adjective)
  The adjective VIVACIOUS has 1 sense:

1. vigorous and animated

  Familiarity information: VIVACIOUS used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIVACIOUS (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Vigorous and animated

Synonyms:

vibrant; vivacious

Context example:

a vivacious folk dance

Similar:

spirited (displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness)

Derivation:

vivacity (characterized by high spirits and animation)

 Context examples 

She was a bright, vivacious, dark-eyed lady, more French than English in her type.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had improved his own spirits, no less than Mrs. Gummidge's, for they were again at their usual flow, and he was full of vivacious conversation as we went along.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Maud, who had prepared me for disappointment, and who had been sprightly and vivacious all day, broke down as we landed in our own little cove.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She made reasonable progress, entertained for me a vivacious, though perhaps not very profound, affection; and by her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was a face that rarely displayed colour, but to-night it was flushed and vivacious.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

During most of this short dialogue, when he had not been speaking in a wild vivacious manner, he had sat idly beating on the lump of coal with the poker.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)