Brisk vs Bracing - What's the difference?
brisk | bracing |
Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
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Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, brisk cider.
Stimulating or invigorating.
Abrupt, curt in one's manner or in relation to others.
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Invigorating or stimulating.
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As adjectives the difference between brisk and bracing
is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while bracing is invigorating or stimulating.As verbs the difference between brisk and bracing
is that brisk is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate while bracing is present participle of lang=en.As a noun bracing is
a brace.brisk
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- We took a brisk walk yesterday.
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- This morning was a brisk fall day. It wasn't cold enough for frost, but you wanted to keep moving.
- 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.
See also
* brusqueExternal links
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English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.