Adjective

(en-adj)

Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.

We took a brisk walk yesterday.

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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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Happening quickly and with little or no warning.

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(obsolete) Hastily prepared or employed; quick; rapid.

* Shakespeare

Never was such a sudden scholar made.

* Milton

the apples of Asphaltis, appearing goodly to the sudden eye

(obsolete) Hasty; violent; rash; precipitate.

* Shakespeare

I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden