Lively vs Vernacular - What's the difference?
lively | vernacular | Related terms |
Full of life; energetic.
* 1671 , (John Milton), (Samson Agonistes)
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, title= Bright; vivid; glowing; strong; vigorous.
* 1704 , (Isaac Newton), (Opticks): Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light
* 1688 , (Robert South), Sacramental Preparation: Set forth in a Sermon on Matthew 5, 12.
(archaic) Endowed with or manifesting life; living.
* c. 1600 , (Philemon Holland)
(archaic) Representing life; lifelike.
* 1632 , (Philip Massinger) and (Nathan Field), (The Fatal Dowry)
(archaic) Airy; animated; spirited.
* 1734 , (Alexander Pope), (An Essay on Man)
(of beer) Fizzy; foamy; tending to produce a large head in the glass.
(nautical)
* 1846 , (Herman Melville), (Typee)
(obsolete) In a lifelike manner.
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Vibrantly, vividly.
The language of a people or a national language.
Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to literary, liturgical, or scientific language.
Language unique to a particular group of people; jargon, argot.
(Roman Catholicism) The indigenous language of a people, into which the words of the Mass are translated.
Of or pertaining to everyday language.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous.
(architecture) of or related to local building materials and styles; not imported
(art) is connected to a collective memory; not imported
Lively is a related term of vernacular.
As a proper noun lively
is .As a noun vernacular is
the language of a people or a national language.As an adjective vernacular is
of or pertaining to everyday language.lively
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lyvely, lifly, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- But wherefore comes old Manoa in such haste, / With youthful steps? Much livelier than erewhile / He seems.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=[…] St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London. Close-packed, crushed by the buttressed height of the railway viaduct, rendered airless by huge walls of factories, it at once banished lively interest from a stranger's mind and left only a dull oppression of the spirit.}}
Tottenham 3-1 Shamrock Rovers, passage=But with the lively Dos Santos pulling the strings behind strikers Pavlyuchenko and Defoe, Spurs controlled the first half without finding the breakthrough their dominance deserved.}}
- The colours of the prism are manifestly more full, intense, and lively that those of natural bodies.
- His faith must be not only living, but lively too.
- chaplets of gold and silver resembling lively flowers and leaves
- I spied the lively picture of my father.
- From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "lively" is often applied: person, character, lady, woman, man, audience, personality, art, guide, activity, game, lesson, introduction, discussion, debate, writing, image, town, city, village, etc.Derived terms
* look livelyNoun
(livelies)- Speak the word, my livelies , and I'll pilot her in.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Adverb
(en adverb)- Him to a dainty flowre she did transmew, / Which in that cloth was wrought, as if it liuely grew.
- the Painter Protogenes .
Anagrams
* *vernacular
English
(wikipedia vernacular)Noun
(en noun)- ''A vernacular of the United States is English.
- Street vernacular can be quite different from what is heard elsewhere.
- For those of a certain age, hiphop vernacular might just as well be a foreign language.
- Vatican II allowed the celebration of the mass in the vernacular .
Synonyms
* (language unique to a group) argot, jargon, slangAntonyms
* (national language) lingua francaAdjective
(en adjective)- a vernacular disease