Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - lively

(livelier, liveliest) 1. You can describe someone as lively when they behave in an enthusiastic and cheerful way. Josephine was bright, lively and cheerful. ADJ • liveliness Amy could sense his liveliness even from where she stood. N-UNCOUNT 2. A lively event or a lively discussion, for example, has lots of interesting and exciting things happening or being said in it. It turned out to be a very interesting session with a lively debate... Their 4-1 win in Honduras was a particularly lively affair. ADJ: usu ADJ n • liveliness Some may enjoy the liveliness of such a restaurant for a few hours a day or week. N-UNCOUNT 3. Someone who has a lively mind is intelligent and interested in a lot of different things. She was a very well educated girl with a lively mind, a girl with ambition. ...her very lively imagination. ADJ: usu ADJ n