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lively

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?la?vli/

Etymology 1

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English l?fl?? (living, lively, long-lived, necessary to life, vital), equivalent to life +? -ly. Cognate with Scots lively, lifely (of or pertaining to life, vital, living, life-like). Doublet of lifely.

Alternative forms

  • lifely (obsolete)

Adjective

lively (comparative livelier, superlative liveliest)

  1. Full of life; energetic.
  2. Bright, glowing, vivid; strong, vigorous.
    • 1704, Isaac Newton, Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
      The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.
    • 1688, Robert South, Sacramental Preparation: Set forth in a Sermon on Matthew 5, 12.
      His faith must be not only living, but lively too.
  3. (archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
    • c. 1600, Philemon Holland
      chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
  4. (archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
    • 1632, Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry
      I spied the lively picture of my father.
  5. (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
  6. (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
Usage notes
  • Nouns to which "lively" is often applied: person, character, lady, woman, man, audience, personality, art, guide, activity, game, lesson, introduction, discussion, debate, writing, image, town, city, village, etc.
Synonyms
  • (full of life): frisky, peppy, zestful; see also Thesaurus:active
  • (vivid, strong, vigorous): intense
  • (endowed with or manifesting life): extant, live, vital; see also Thesaurus:alive
  • (representing life): lifey, limned, naturalistic,
  • (fizzy, foamy): frothy, spumescent
Derived terms
  • liveliness
  • look lively
Translations

Noun

lively (plural livelies)

  1. (nautical, informal) Term of address.
    • 1846, Herman Melville, Typee
      Speak the word, my livelies, and I'll pilot her in.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English l?fl??e, equivalent to life +? -ly.

Adverb

lively (comparative more lively, superlative most lively)

  1. Vigorously.
  2. Vibrantly, vividly.
  3. (obsolete) In a lifelike manner.
    • , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.220-1:
      the Painter Protogenes [] having perfected the image of a wearie and panting dog, [] but being unable, as he desired, lively to represent the drivel or slaver of his mouth, vexed against his owne worke, took his spunge, and moist as it was with divers colours, threw it at the picture  [].
Translations

Anagrams

  • evilly, vilely

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sharp

English

Etymology

From Middle English scharp, from Old English s?earp, from Proto-Germanic *skarpaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerb-. Cognate with West Frisian skerp, Low German scharp, Dutch scherp, German scharf, Danish skarp. Compare Irish cearb (keen; cutting), Latin acerbus (tart, bitter), Tocharian B kärpye (rough), Latvian skârbs (sharp, rough), Russian ????? (š?erba, notch), Polish szczerba (gap, dent, jag, chip, nick, notch), Albanian harb (rudeness), from *(s)ker- (to cut). More at shear.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???p/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /???p/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)p

Adjective

sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)

  1. Terminating in a point or edge, especially one that can cut easily; not obtuse or rounded.
  2. (colloquial) Intelligent.
  3. (music) Higher than usual by one semitone (denoted by the symbol ? after the name of the note).
  4. (music) Higher in pitch than required.
  5. Having an intense, acrid flavour.
  6. Sudden and intense.
    • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
  7. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest.
  8. (colloquial) Keenly or unduly attentive to one's own interests; shrewd.
  9. Exact, precise, accurate; keen.
  10. Offensive, critical, or acrimonious.
  11. (colloquial) Stylish or attractive.
  12. Observant; alert; acute.
  13. Forming a small angle; especially, forming an angle of less than ninety degrees.
    • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
      The street down which Warwick had come intersected Front Street at a sharp angle in front of the old hotel, forming a sort of flatiron block at the junction, known as Liberty Point
  14. Steep; precipitous; abrupt.
  15. (mathematics, of a statement) Said of as extreme a value as possible.
  16. (chess) Tactical; risky.
    • 1963, Max Euwe, Chess Master Vs. Chess Amateur (page xviii)
      Time and time again, the amateur player has lost the opportunity to make the really best move because he felt bound to follow some chess "rule" he had learned, rather than to make the sharp move which was indicated by the position.
    • 1975, Lud?k Pachman, Decisive Games in Chess History (page 64)
      In such situations most chess players choose the obvious and logical way: they go in for sharp play. However, not everyone is a natural attacking player []
  17. Piercing; keen; severe; painful.
  18. Eager or keen in pursuit; impatient for gratification.
  19. (obsolete) Fierce; ardent; fiery; violent; impetuous.
  20. Composed of hard, angular grains; gritty.
  21. (phonetics, dated) Uttered in a whisper, or with the breath alone; aspirated; unvoiced.
  22. (obsolete) Hungry.
    • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, II.iii.1:
      “[W]hy this last week we ha'n't had nothing at all but some dry musty red herrings; so you may think, Miss, we're kept pretty sharp!”

Synonyms

  • (able to cut easily): keen, razor, razor-sharp
  • (intelligent): brainy, bright, intelligent, keen, smart, witty
  • (able to pierce easily): pointed
  • (having an intense and acrid flavour): acrid, pungent
  • (sudden and intense): abrupt, acute, stabbing
  • (illegal, dishonest): dishonest, dodgy, illegal, illicit, underhand
  • (accurate): accurate, exact, keen, precise
  • (critical): acrimonious, bitter, cutting, harsh, hostile, nasty
  • (stylish, attractive): chic, elegant, smart, stylish
  • (observant): acute, alert, keen, observant, sharp-eyed

Antonyms

  • (able to cut easily): blunt, dull
  • (intelligent): dim, dim-witted, slow, slow-witted, thick
  • (able to pierce easily): blunt
  • (higher than usual by one semitone): flat
  • (music: higher in pitch than required): flat
  • (having an intense and acrid flavour): bland, insipid, tasteless
  • (sudden and intense): dull
  • (illegal, dishonest): above-board, honest, legit, legitimate, reputable
  • (accurate): inaccurate, imprecise
  • (critical): complimentary, flattering, friendly, kind, nice
  • (stylish, attractive): inelegant, scruffy, shabby
  • (observant): unobservant

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

sharp (comparative sharper, superlative sharpest)

  1. To a point or edge; piercingly; eagerly; sharply.
    • 1853, Matthew Arnold, Sohrab and Rustum
      The iron plates rang sharp, but turn'd the spear
  2. (not comparable) Exactly.
  3. (music) In a higher pitch than is correct or desirable.

Synonyms

  • (exactly): exactly, on the dot (of time), precisely; see also Thesaurus:exactly

Translations

Noun

sharp (plural sharps)

  1. (music) The symbol ?, placed after the name of a note in the key signature or before a note on the staff to indicate that the note is to be played a semitone higher.
  2. (music) A note that is played a semitone higher than usual; denoted by the name of the note that is followed by the symbol ?.
  3. (music) A note that is sharp in a particular key.
  4. (music) The scale having a particular sharp note as its tonic.
  5. (usually in the plural) Something that is sharp.
    1. (medicine) A hypodermic syringe.
    2. (medicine, dated) A scalpel or other edged instrument used in surgery.
    3. A sharp tool or weapon.
    • c. 1700 Jeremy Collier, On Duelling
      If butchers had but the manners to go to sharps, gentlemen would be contented with a rubber at cuffs.
  6. A dishonest person; a cheater.
    This usage is often classified as variant spelling of shark, and unrelated to the 'pointed' or 'cutting' meanings of sharp.
  7. Part of a stream where the water runs very rapidly.
    • 1858, Charles Kingsley, "Chalk Stream Studies", in Fraser's Magazine
      here are good fish to be picked out of sharps and stop-holes into the water-tables
  8. A sewing needle with a very slender point, more pointed than a blunt or a between.
  9. (in the plural) Fine particles of husk mixed with coarse particle of flour of cereals; middlings.
    • 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy 2010, p. 21:
      While he worked he talked to his ducks, who were waddling about hopefully, as it was almost time for the red bucket to be filled with sharps and potato-peelings.
  10. (slang, dated) An expert.
  11. A sharpie (member of Australian gangs of the 1960s and 1970s).

Derived terms

  • cardsharp, card sharp
  • double sharp

Translations

See also

  • (music) accidental, flat, natural
  • ?

Verb

sharp (third-person singular simple present sharps, present participle sharping, simple past and past participle sharped)

  1. (music) To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp.
  2. To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To sharpen.

Translations

References

  • sharp at OneLook Dictionary Search
  • sharp in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • Spahr, harps, shrap

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