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Brisk vs Rousing - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between brisk and rousing

is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while rousing is that rouses or excites.

As verbs the difference between brisk and rousing

is that brisk is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate while rousing is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun rousing is

the act by which somebody or something is roused.

brisk

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.
    • We took a brisk walk yesterday.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012
    • , date=December 29 , author=Paul Doyle , title=Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle , work=The Guardian citation , page= , passage=Ba, who has been linked with a January move to Arsenal, should have rewarded their brisk start with the opening goal in the 16th minute. }}
  • Full of spirit of life; effervescing, as liquors; sparkling; as, 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 ,
    • 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

    * brusque

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.

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    rousing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That rouses or excites.
    • rousing music
  • *{{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Tom Rostance , title=Stoke 2 - 1 Besiktas , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=But he still saw his side produce a rousing display which owed much to their lauded prowess from set-pieces, despite Uefa regulations meaning the pitch had to be widened and, in the process, the run-up area for Delap's long throws reduced.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody or something is roused.
  • * 2010 , Kathleen Huggins, The Expectant Parents' Companion (page 88)
    • Parents who use cloth diapers often use disposables for travel, nights, or both. Disposables can save parents repeated nighttime rousings or frequent sheet changes.

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