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Is lively a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word lively is a Scrabble US word. The word lively is worth 12 points in Scrabble:

L1I1V4E1L1Y4

Is lively a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word lively is a Scrabble UK word and has 12 points:

L1I1V4E1L1Y4

Is lively a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word lively is a Words With Friends word. The word lively is worth 14 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

L2I1V5E1L2Y3

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6-letter words (3 found)

EVILLY,LIVELY,VILELY,

5-letter words (1 found)

VEILY,

4-letter words (12 found)

EVIL,ILLY,LEVY,LILY,LIVE,VEIL,VELL,VILE,VILL,VLEI,YELL,YILL,

3-letter words (10 found)

ELL,ILL,IVY,LEI,LEV,LEY,LIE,LYE,VIE,VLY,

2-letter words (3 found)

EL,LI,YE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 30 words from lively according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of lively

lively

Pronunciation

  • (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlaɪv.li/

Etymology 1

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċ (“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.
  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.
  5. (archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
  6. (of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
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
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Noun

lively (plural livelies)

  1. (nautical, informal) Term of address.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lyvely, lifly, from Old English līflīċe, 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  […].
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Anagrams

  • evilly, vilely

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