Brisk vs Shivery - What's the difference?
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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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Given to shivering; tending to shiver.
:The cold night made me all shivery .
Easily broken; brittle.
(Webster 1913)
Brisk is a related term of shivery.
As adjectives the difference between brisk and shivery
is that brisk is full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick while shivery is given to shivering; tending to shiver.As a verb brisk
is to make or become lively; to enliven; to animate.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.