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brisk
English
Etymology
Uncertain. Compare Welsh brwysg and French brusque.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??sk/
- Rhymes: -?sk
Adjective
brisk (comparative brisker or more brisk, superlative briskest or most brisk)
- Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action
- Synonyms: lively, spirited, quick
- We took a brisk walk yesterday.
- Full of spirit of life; effervescing
- (archaic) sparkling; fizzy
- brisk cider
- Stimulating or invigorating.
- This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15
- Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15
Translations
See also
- brusque
Verb
brisk (third-person singular simple present brisks, present participle brisking, simple past and past participle brisked)
- (transitive, intransitive, often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.
Further reading
- brisk in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- brisk in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- brisk at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Birks, birks
Albanian
Etymology
From brej, possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *bhrisqo- (“bitter”). Compare Norwegian brisk (“bitter taste”), brisken (“bitter, sharp”), Welsh brysg, French brusque, Russian ????????? (brezgát?, “nauseate, feel disgust”), English brisk.
Noun
brisk m
- razor
- sharp, smart, keen, freezing cold
Lithuanian
Alternative forms
- briski
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [b?r??s?k]
Verb
brìsk
- second-person singular imperative of bristi
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Possibly onomatopoetic of the sound made when put on fire.
Noun
brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)
- juniper
Synonyms
- brake, einer
Etymology 2
From Middle Low German britse, britsche, briske.
Noun
brisk m (definite singular brisken, indefinite plural briskar, definite plural briskane)
- a wall-bound sleeping bench
References
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- what brisket
- what brisket to buy
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- what brisk walk means
alive
English
Etymology
From Middle English alive, alyve, alife, from Old English on l?fe (“in life”), equivalent to a- +? live.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??la?v/
- Rhymes: -a?v
Adjective
alive (comparative more alive, superlative most alive)
- Having life; living; not dead
- In a state of action; in force or operation; existent
- Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
- Sprightly; lively; brisk.
- susceptible; easy to impress; having keen feelings, as opposed to apathy
- (as an intensifier) out of all living creatures.
- (programming) Synonym of live
Usage notes
- Alive always follows the noun which it qualifies, for example "The bee is alive". Before a noun, the adjectives living or live may be used with a similar meaning
Synonyms
- (having life): alive and kicking, extant, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
- (in a state of action): existing, extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
- (sprightly, lively, brisk): frisky, peppy, zestful; see also Thesaurus:active
- (out of all living creatures): ever, in the world
Antonyms
- dead
Derived terms
Translations
References
alive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- Leiva, alvei, avile
alive From the web:
- what alice forgot
- what alive means
- what aleve good for
- what alice forgot summary
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