Vivacious

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

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. Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial. [R.]

Synonyms: Sprightly; active; animated; sportive; gay; merry; jocund; light- hearted. Vi*va"cious*ly, adv. Vi*va"cious*ness, n.