vivacious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite vigorous and animated
    vibrant.
    • a vibrant group that challenged the system
    • a charming and vivacious hostess
    • a vivacious folk dance

WordNet

Vi*va"cious adjective
Etymology
L. vívax, -acis, fr. vivere to live. See Vivid.
Definitions
  1. Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived. Obs.
    Hitherto the English bishops have been vivacious almost to wonder. . . . But five died for the first twenty years of her [Queen Elizabeth's] reign. Fuller.
    The faith of Christianity is far more vivacious than any mere ravishment of the imagination can ever be. I. Taylor.
  2. Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet. "Vivacious nonsense." V. Knox.
  3. (Bot.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. R. Syn. -- Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light-hearted. -- Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. -- Vi*va"cious*ness, n.

Webster 1913