Lightsome vs Vivacious - What's the difference?
lightsome | vivacious | Related terms |
Emitting or manifesting light; luminous, radiant.
*, III.7:
*:While in their mothers wombe enclosd they were, / Ere they into the lightsom world were brought, / In fleshly lust were mingled both yfere.
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), X, xlix:
*:This said, the smoky cloud was cleft and torn, / Which like a veil upon them stretched lay, // And up to open heav'n forthwith was borne, / And left the prince in view of lightsome day.
*1891 , (Mary Noailles Murfree), In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p.105:
*:There came a day when he remembered the moment, when he regretted that he had not ridden off into the buoyant midst of these lightsome elements.
*2006 , Goswin (of Bossut.), Martinus Cawley, Send me God :
*:If any find it incredible that Ida be even outwardly so lightsome that she saw clearly in the night, let them answer this question.
*2009 , David Rooney, The wine of certitude :
*:The literal sense of the Greek is: “If therefore thy whole body is lightsome', having no part darksome, thy whole body will be ' lightsome , as when the lamp lightens thee with its flashing.”
Upbeat; cheery; light graceful.
* 1983 , Raimon Panikkar, The Vedic experience :
* 1999 , Thomas Middleton, David M. Bevington, Kathleen McLuskie, Plays on women - Page 69 :
Lively and animated; full of life and energy.
(obsolete) Long-lived.
(rare) Difficult to kill.
Lightsome is a related term of vivacious.
As adjectives the difference between lightsome and vivacious
is that lightsome is emitting or manifesting light; luminous, radiant or lightsome can be upbeat; cheery; light graceful while vivacious is lively and animated; full of life and energy.lightsome
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(en adjective)Antonyms
* (l)Derived terms
* lightsomely * lightsomenessEtymology 2
From .Adjective
(en adjective)- Reality is lightsome', that is, light and graceful.... Moreover, the play, the ' lightsome character of reality, would be misunderstood if this dimension were to be severed from what really makes a play a play, [...]
- When I was of your youth, I was lightsome and quick two years before I was married.
